Displaying Archiving Objects and Tables

Use

You use an archiving object to archive exactly those tables that are defined in this archiving object in transaction AOBJ. If you do not know which table a specific archiving object archives, or which archiving objects archive the contents of a specific table, you can use this procedure to find out.

Various export, filter and search functions are also available.

Procedure

Choose Start of the navigation path Administration Next navigation step CCMS DB Administration Data Archiving (transaction DB15). End of the navigation path . Alternatively, you can call Archive Administration (transaction SARA) and select DB tables.

The Tables and Archiving Objects screen appears.

Tables

To display a table for a specific archiving object, enter the name of the object in the Table for Object field and choose Enter.

Note
By default, the system displays only tables whose data records are deleted during archiving. To display all tables that the archiving object processes, choose All Tables.
To display all the archiving objects for one of the listed tables, select the table and then choose Display Objects.

The corresponding archiving objects are listed in the top part of the screen.

Archiving Objects

Choose Archiving Objects.
To display an archiving object for a specific table, enter the table name in the Object for Table field and choose Enter to confirm.

Note
In addition to the transparent tables, you can also enter pool or cluster tables here. DB15 determines the transparent tables for the pool and cluster tables.
To display all the tables for one of the listed archiving objects, select the archiving object and then choose Display Tables.

The corresponding tables are listed in the bottom part of the screen.
Caution
DB15 does not display any archiving objects with the following properties:
- Read data, but do not delete
- Use views or structures to archive data indirectly