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Function documentationPurge Master Data

 

Master data records can accumulate over time, so you can schedule the system to purge them. Purging physically removes the records from the database.

You can purge the following master data from Demand Data Foundation (DDF) using the /DMF/PURGE_AGENT report (transaction SE38):

  • Inventory

  • Location

  • Location Hierarchy

  • Offer

  • Placeholder Product

  • Product

  • Product Hierarchy

  • Product Location

  • Transportation Lane

  • Vendor Fund

Prerequisites

  • Your user is authorized to purge data from the system.

  • You have defined the purge settings in Customizing (transaction SPRO) under Start of the navigation path Cross-Application Components Next navigation step Demand Data Foundation Next navigation step Basic Settings Next navigation step Purging Next navigation step Define Purge Settings End of the navigation path.

  • Data records have been marked for deletion.

Features

You can do the following:

  • Define the objects that you want to purge and run the report to remove them from the database.

  • If you select the Cascade Purge field in the Define Purge Settings Customizing activity, the system verifies whether dependent objects can be purged as well.

  • Create variants of the report and use them when scheduling background jobs or purging data manually.

  • Check the successfully purged records using the Application Log function. Choose transaction SLG1 and specify /DMF/APPL as the object and /DMF/OFFER_PURGE as the subobject.

  • Check the erroneous records using the Monitor Exceptions function (see Monitor Exceptions).

Example

You select the objects to be purged. For example, to purge the data for the offer 345, you select the Offer checkbox and enter 345 in the Offer ID field.