Archiving the SAP Product
Purpose
Using archiving you can store product master data that is no longer required and subsequently delete if physically from the database. The SAP Product Archiving Environment is completely controlled by status and is connected to the SAP Archive Information System.
The archiving object for SAP Product is called PRODUCT_MD.
Prerequisites
You have activated the archiving .
Process Flow
The archiving and deletion of SAP Product Data must be started separately:
Preparatory phase: Flagging the product for archiving
A product can be selected for archiving directly from product maintenance (transaction COMMPR01) by setting the status
To Be Archived
.
Archiving Phase – Preprocessing: Execute usage check for products to be archived, and lock these products for archiving.
Only those products that are no longer used by any application and have no reference to other objects can be archived and subsequently deleted from the database. The status of these products is changed by the usage check to
Archivable
. The usage check is dependent on the selected archiving object. The products are deleted after preprocessing.
Archiving Phase - Write: Writing Data to the Archive
The product data with the status
Archivable
is written to an archive file. There is no status change in the product.
Archiving Phase - Delete: Check Archived Data
The system compares the data in the local archive with the data in the local database and sets the product status
Archived
for those objects that are in both the archive and the database.
Archiving Phase - Postprocessing:
The system deletes the products that have the status
Archived
including the associated dependent data from the database.
Display Archived Objects in Product Maintenance
To display archived products in product maintenance, choose
Environment
Archived Products
or use the transaction COMM_PRDARC.
Additional Information
For more information on archiving, see Introduction to Data Archiving (CA_CARC) .