You can archive change records for the following changes to user master records:

• Authorization changes and changes to other user characteristics

• Changes to user passwords

The archiving object US_USER is used to archive password change records from table USH04. The object US_PASS archives records of changes to user master records other than password changes. In this way, for example, changes in the authorizations in a user master record are recorded. These recordings are stored in the USH02 table.

Unless you are archiving very many change records, an archiving run should have no significant effect on the performance of your system. The user change records require the following memory space (uncompressed):

• US_PASS password change record requires approximately 300 bytes

• US_USER user change record requires approximately 100 bytes

When you archive user change records, it does not have any effect on other archivable data. There are no particular dependencies or relationships between user change records and other archivable data.

SAP recommends a storage duration of 10 years for all user and authorization change records.

Change records are archived according to the date that you specify. All records older than the date specified are archived. Old archives are not automatically deleted.

The log files generated by archiving and deleting records are stored in the SAP spool system. The archiving log records the number of change records archived. The delete log lists the change records that were deleted after the archiving session.

The archiving function calls the standard archiving interface, where the correct archiving object is already specified.

You need only specify (or create) an appropriate report variant, specify the start time and printing specifications for the background processing of the report, and schedule the report with Create job.

See also the documentation on the archiving procedure in general. You will find this documentation in the first section of this document.

You must explicitly delete archived records after an archiving session has been successfully completed. Be sure to check the archiving log to be sure that the archiving session has been completed successfully. Also, be sure that you specify the same date for the deletion program. Otherwise, too many or too few change records will be deleted.