Creating and Executing Archiving Requests 

Use

You can create an archiving request manually without using a process chain.

Prerequisites

You have created and activated a data archiving process for an InfoProvider.

Procedure

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       1.      You are in the Modeling functional area of the Data Warehousing Workbench. Choose Manage in the InfoProvider tree in the context menu for your InfoProvider.

       2.      Choose the Archiving tab page. This is only displayed if there is an A version of the data archiving process.

       3.      Choose  Create Archiving Request.

       4.      Make the required settings:

○       Under Relative Time Restrictions, you can specify the area to be archived.

○       Under Process Flow Control, you can either continue open archiving processes or specify whether the archiving process is to run until a specific status only. See Status of the Archiving Requests.

For data archiving processes without an ADK connection, you can also choose between the Test Mode and Productive Mode. Only tests are run in the test mode. No data is actually archived.

○       Under Further Restrictions, you can select values of your partitioning characteristics.

       5.      Choose   Execute.

       6.      Choose Back. The generated archiving request is displayed.

       7.      You start other processing steps using the status columns. The status of the request depends on what you specified under Process Flow Control. You can execute the rest of the steps by choosing the pushbutton for the last status entry. More information about the different statuses: Status of the Archiving Requests.

Result

If the archiving request has run in the productive mode and the status is green, the data has been archived. If you then discover that you still need the data in the InfoProvider, you can reload it.

More information:

Reloading Archived Data

Loading Archived Data Using a Data Transfer Process