Technical Details for Archiving

Overview of the Status When Archiving

Archiving Status

Archiving Steps	Resulting Product Status	Status of the Archiving Run in the Archive Administration (ADK)	Physical Location of Data
Archiving flag (either manually or via customer-specific programs)	To archive		Database
Preprocessing (can be scheduled to be periodic).	Archivable Locked To be deleted		Database
Writing (can be scheduled to be periodic).	Archivable Locked To be deleted	Incomplete	Archive file and database
Deletion (can be scheduled to be periodic).	Archivable Locked To be deleted	Complete	Archive file and database
Postprocessing (can be scheduled to be periodic).	Product status no longer visible in product maintenance as it has been physically deleted from the database.	Complete	Archive file

Programs and Functions

The following programs and functions are used for archiving SAP Products:

Archiving Function	Program	User Interface / Use	Execution Type
Archive administration preprocessing	COM_PRODUCT_ SELECTIONS	Transaction SARA	Job
Archive administration writing	COM_PRODUCT_ARC_WRITE	Transaction SARA	Job
Archive administration deletion	COM_PRODUCT_ARC_CHECKBACK	Transaction SARA	Job
Archive administration postprocessing	COM_PRODUCT_ARC_DELETE	Transaction SARA	Job
Select product GUIDs to be archived	Function COM_PRD_PRESELECT_FOR_ARCDEL	BOR Method	Implicit Use
Usage check	Function COM_PRD_VERIFY_FOR_ARCDEL	BOR Method	Implicit Use
Delete products	Function COM_PRD_DELETE_FOR_ARCDEL	BOR Method	Implicit Use
Display products from the archive		Transaction COMM_PRDARC
Customer-defined deletion checks	Implementation of Business Add-In PRODUCT_ARCHIVE Method VERIFY_EXTRA_DATA	BAdI Method	Implicit use: Calling point in program COM_PRODUCT_ARC_CHECKBACK
Customer-defined usage checks	Implementation of Business Add-In PRODUCT_ARCHIVE Method CHECK_ARCHIVABLE	BAdI Method	Implicit use: Calling point in preprocessing program in function module COM_PRD_VERIFY_FOR_ARCDEL
Customer-defined extension for archiving additional data	Implementation of Business Add-In PRODUCT_ARCHIVE Method ARCHIVE_EXTRA_DATA	BAdI Method	Implicit use: Calling point in program COM_PRODUCT_ARC_ WRITE
Customer-defined extension for archiving additional data in structures	Implementation of Business Add-In PRODUCT_ARCHIVE Method EXPAND_EXTRA_STRUCTURE	BAdI Method	Implicit use: Calling point in program COM_PRODUCT_ARC_ WRITE
Customer-defined extension for deleting additional data	Implementation of the Business Add-In COM_PRODUCT_DELETE Method DELETE_EXTRA_DATA	BAdI Method	Implicit use: Calling point in program COM_PRODUCT_ARC_ DELETE

Business Add-Ins for the Extension of Archiving

The archiving of SAP Products can be extended using the following Business Add-Ins:

Business Add-In

Method / Use

PRODUCT_ARCHIVE

Using the method CHECK_ARCHIVABLE, you can define your own usage checks for SAP Product.

Using the method ARCHIVE_EXTRA_DATA, you can write additional data per product to the archive file.

Using the method EXPAND_EXTRA_STRUCTURE, you can include additional table structures for the SAP Product in the archiving .

Using the method VERIFY_EXTRA_DATA, you can define your own deletion checks for SAP Product.

COM_PRODUCT_DELETE

Using the method DELETE_EXTRA_DATA, you can define other data that is to be deleted when deleting a product and that does not directly belong to product master. However, you do not use this BAdI to delete the data of customer-defined set types; this is automatically integrated in archiving during generation.

For more information on Business Add-Ins, see the Customizing of the Cross-Application Components under Start of the navigation path SAP Products Next navigation step Enhancements. End of the navigation path

Structures for the Archiving Object of the SAP Product

The following structures are used to define the archiving object:

Structures

Archiving Object

Defines the product archiving framework.

PRODUCT_MD

Archiving information structure

Defines the amount of all those fields that can be indexed that can used in field catalogs and thus in product archives.

For more information, see Archive Information System .

SAP_PRODUCT_AIS

Field Catalog

Structure of an archive index that is maintained in the SAP Archiving Information System. A field catalog always belongs to an archiving information structure. An archiving information structure always belongs to an archiving object.

SAP_PRODUCT_MD

Tables for the Archiving Object PRODUCT_MD

The data archived and deleted in the archiving object PRODUCT_MD comes from the following fixed tables. All of the table structures that are to be archived (such as customer-defined set types) are determined when the archiving write program is run:

Tables

Table	Description
COMM_PRODUCT	Product header data
COMM_PRODUCTH	History of the product header data
CRM_JCDO	Change documents for the status object
CRM_JCDS	Change documents for the system /user status
CRM_JEST	Individual status per object
STXB	SAPscript texts: Texts not in SAPscript format
STXH	SAPscript texts: Header
STXL	SAPscript texts: Lines

Additional data for the product (for example, set types and multi-value attributes) are archived and deleted. This data is determined dynamically in the archiving write program.