You have the possibility to delete temporary business partners that are no longer needed, or business partners that were loaded into a system by mistake without archiving these data records beforehand.

In this way the volume of data is reduced and performance is improved.

You have two different possibilities to delete business partners from your database.

• One step procedure

• that you select using the business partner number
• that have been given a deletion or archiving flag
• that have the system status deletable

• Two step procedure

1. In preparation for the delete operation, you can first determine the data records for deletion and set the relevant system status using the transaction Set deletion or archiving flag (BUPA_PRE_DA).

For more information, see the report documentation.

2. Following this, you carry out the actual delete operation using the transaction Deletion of business partners (BUPA_DEL). You should have set the flag deletable as the parameter.

In both cases it is checked beforehand whether the business partners intended for archiving are still being actively used in the system. These checks are defined in the BDT event DELE1. You can also define other checks here.

You have the possibility to delete user-defined tables. To do this you must define function modules for the BDT event DELE2.

The business partners removed from the system, as well as the business partners that are still being used and that cannot be deleted, are recorded in an application log.

In order to evaluate the log, choose the transaction Evaluate application log (SLG1) and enter the object BDT_DATAARCHIVING and the sub-object CA_BUPA.