Archiving Archive Administration Data (BC-CCM-ADK) 

Definition

Archiving object BC_ARCHIVE for archiving archive administration data.

Use

You can use this archiving object to store information about archiving runs that were selected for archiving in the management of archiving objects.

Features

You can select the following options using the check boxes in the write program variant:

·        Restrictions

Here you can restrict the data to be archived. You can restrict the data via the client or via the archiving object.

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·        Process Control

Here you can determine whether the write program should run in the test mode (presetting) or in production mode. In test mode the writing of the data to the archive is only simulated. An archive file is not actually created. In test mode the files are selected using the selection criteria and other archiving-object-specific archivability checks.

Under the production mode option you can also choose Delete with Test Variant. If this option is selected, the delete program of the archiving object is started via the test mode variant specified in archiving-object-specific customizing. This indicator is only active if the automatic start of the delete program has been activated in archiving-object-specific customizing.

·        Detail Log

With this indicator you can determine whether a summarized or detail log is produced during the execution of the write program. The detail log contains the information contained in the summarized log and all the processed objects including the corresponding messages.

·        Archiving Session Note

Here you can enter a text that describes the archiving session. This will later facilitate the selection of the archiving session in archive management, for example during the delete phase.

You can find more information in the corresponding field help.

Procedure

1.       Choose transaction SARA with the required archiving object and display the administration data.

2.       Double-click on the required archiving run and switch to change mode when the relevant dialog appears.

3.       Select Select for archiving. The runs selected are then listed in Administration under Archiving runs selected for archiving.

4.       Choose transaction SARA with archiving object BC_ARCHIVE. The archiving run started writes the selected information on runs to a common archive and deletes it from the database, if necessary (depending on Customizing for the deletion program automatic start and the selected variant). The new archiving run can then be found in the BC_ARCHIVE administration.

So that the administration data to be archived is actually deleted, no entries must exist for the selected runs in the job overview of the relevant archiving object.

Structure

The archiving object BC_ARCHIVE consists of the following tables, from which data is archived and deleted:

Table	Description
ADMI_RUN	Header data for archiving runs
ADMI_FILES	Archive files for archiving runs
ADMI_VARIA	Content of archiving program variant
ADMI_SKIP	Address of data objects that should be skipped
<Info-Tab>	Archive file info table for an archiving object

The archiving class TEXT is also used. It covers the following tables:

Table	Table name
STXB	SAPscript: Texts in non-SAPscript format
STXH	STXD SAPscript text-file header
STXL	STXD SAPscript text-file lines