Archiving Warehouse Requests from External Systems (SCM-ECT-DLP) 

Definition

Archiving object DLV_REQ for archiving and deleting inbound delivery notifications, outbound delivery requests, and posting change requests.

Structure

The following programs are available for DLV_REQ:

Program	Function
/SCDL/DLV_REQ_ARCH_WRITE	Write
/SCDL/DLV_REQ_ARCH_DELETE	Delete
/SCDL/DLV_REQ_ACRH_READ	Read

Write

The write program reads the data records of the documents to be archived from the database and records them in an archive file.

In the selection screen of the write program, you can select the documents to be archived via the selection criteria in Deliveries and Restrictions. In the process control, you can determine whether you want the write report to start in either test or production mode. If you have activated the automatic start of the deletion program in archiving-object-specific Customizing, you can also define here that delivery processing starts the deletion program of the archiving object with the test mode variant saved in archiving-object-specific Customizing.

When delivery processing executes the write program, it records a log containing information about the processed data records. In the selection screen of the write program, you can define that a detailed log is to be displayed in delivery processing. In addition to the information contained in the log, this contains all processed objects including the associated messages.

Prerequisites for Writing Data Records

The documents to be archived must have the status To Be Archived (see Archiving in Delivery Processing).

Delete

The delete program deletes the data records from the database that were previously archived with the write program.

In the selection screen of the delete program, you can determine whether you want the delete report to start in either test or production mode.

In the archiving object-specific Customizing, you can activate the automatic start of the delete program.

When delivery processing executes the delete program, it records a log containing information about the processed data records. In the selection screen of the delete program, you can define that a detailed log is to be displayed in delivery processing. In addition to the information contained in the log, this contains all processed objects including the associated messages.

Read

The read program reads the archived data records.

In the selection screen of the read program, you can select the documents to be archived via the selection criteria in Deliveries and Restrictions. In the search type, you can define whether the data records are to be searched for via the Archive Information System or sequentially.

Sequential Search

The sequential search depends on the size of the archive file since all documents in this file have to be read by the system.

Search via Archive Information System

The search using the Archive Information System is based on index tables and is faster than the sequential search. However, you have to specify the document number to use this search. If you want to use the search via the Archive Information System, you must first activate the archive information structure SAP_DLV_REQH in the Archive Retrieval Configurator (ARC) (see Activating and Deactivating Information Structures).

Display of Archived Data Records

In the archiving administration, the system only displays the header data of the documents. The complete document data can be displayed via the relevant user interface that is assigned to delivery processing. You can use a search function on the user interface to display the archived documents with all the detailed data.

We recommend that you use read program /SCDL/DLV_INB_ACRH_READ for reading archived data records for test purposes only.

Instead, use the search function on the relevant user interface. To do so, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Extended Warehouse Management ® Delivery Processing and one of the following options:

® Inbound Delivery ®Maintain Inbound Delivery Notification and the Open Advanced Search pushbutton. On the Search Crit. 2 tab page, choose Archive as the data source.

® Outbound Delivery ® Maintain Outbound Delivery Request and the Open Advanced Search pushbutton. On the Search Crit. 2 tab page, choose Archive as the data source.

® Posting Change ® Maintain Posting Change Request and the Open Advanced Search pushbutton. Choose Archive as the data source.

The system displays the normal document display with all the data records.

For more information about archiving objects, see Data Archiving (CA-ARC) in the section Archiving Object.

For more information about the procedure for writing, deleting, and reading data records, see Archiving Procedure in data archiving (CA-ARC).