Variant Settings for the Preprocessing Program (BC-SRV-ASF-AT)
The preprocessing program prepares the long text data for the write program, in order to save time during the writing of the archive files.
On the selection screen of the preprocessing program, you can enter an end date for archiving in the Long Text Logs area. All the long texts that were created up to this date are prepared for archiving.
This date must be in the past. In addition, it cannot fall in a period for which long texts were already archived.
You can enter a package size in the Options area. This defines the intervals (measured in number of long texts) in which changed data is permanently stored on the database. If the packet size is too high, the program may terminate. The optimal value depends on the configuration of your database system. The default value in the system is 1000.
Information on the other general selection options is available under Variant Maintenance for Archiving Jobs.
If data exists that resulted from a previous preprocessing program, but was not archived, the preprocessing program cannot be restarted. A restart of the preprocessing program is only possible once this data has been removed from the system. This can be done either by ending the archiving cycle that was started (write program and deletion program), or by discarding the data of the preprocessing program using program S_AUT_ARCH_UNDO.