Archiving Billing Document Headers (IS-U-BI)

You can use archiving object ISU_BILL to archive, delete, and reload billing document headers that are no longer required.

During archiving, billing document headers that are no longer required are written to one or more archive files. The preprocessing program checks for archivability at the document header level (see Checks).

Prerequisites

Before you archive the header data of billing documents, you must archive the document line items.

Recommendation

Set the retention period of the billing document headers, so that you do not have to reverse the document. To clear space on the database as early as possible, we recommend that you set the retention period of the reversed documents to be shorter than the retention period of the other documents.

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Note Note

The Archive Billing Document Line Header mass transaction EABIH is available for this function. On the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Utilities Industry Next navigation step Tools Data Archiving Parallel Processing Billing Archive Billing Document Headers End of the navigation path .

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Structure

Data from the following tables is archived:

Table	Description
DBERCHV	Consumption History
ERCH	Billing Document Data
ERCHC	Invoicing/Reversal History: ERCH
ERCHO	Outsorting Table for Billing
ERCHP	Analysis Periods of Dynamic Period Control
ETAXERCH	Index Table for Tax Storage/Billing Documents
EMDUSDRQHEAD	Table for MDUS Request Data
EMDUSDRQITEM	Subrequest for a Request
EMDUSDRQINPUT	Input Parameters for a Subrequest
EMDUSDRQRESULT	Results for a Subrequest
EMDUSDRQEXCL	Exception Days for a Subrequest

The following archiving actions and corresponding reports are available:

Action	Report
Preprocessing	REAARCH_ANALYSE_HEAD
Archiving	REAARCH_READ_HEAD
Display	REAARCH_READ_ARCHIVE_HEAD
Delete	REAARCH_DELETE_HEAD
Reload	REAARCH_RELOAD_HEAD

ILM Actions

The ILM Actions checkbox is available for this archiving object when the following conditions are met:

You are working within the SAP NetWeaver Information Lifecycle Management (SAP NetWeaver ILM) framework.
All the necessary prerequisites are satisfied, for example, the necessary business functions are activated.

The ILM actions allow you to archive data for which the retention periods defined in the Information Retention Manager (IRM) are evaluated. Furthermore, you can make snapshots of data and destroy data that satisfies the appropriate criteria. For more information, see the ILM Actions in the Write Program section of ILM Enhancements for Data Archiving.

Note Note

When you execute the Data Destruction ILM action for archiving object ISU_BILL, the usual archiving checks and preprocessing runs for this object are executed first. The data will only be destroyed if the normal rules for an archiving run are validated.

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