SAP Archiving Activity – Part2
After SAP Archiving Activity – Part1, Please proceed with below sequence for Step 2 completion..
Archiving, Deletion and post processing activities need to be performed using TCODE SARA.
Select the highlighted Archive push button.
Select the ‘Maintain’ Push button.
Enter the appropriate company codes and also year and periods.
Then, Press Enter.
Now variant has been created as per the selection parameters.
Press F3 till the below screen appears.
Select ‘Start date’.
In above screen,
- Select ‘Immediate’ Push button
- Select ‘Check’ Push button
- Finally ‘Save’ it.
- Select ‘Check’ Push button
Then, select the ‘Spool params’ push button in the screen.
Provide the Output device= LOCL
Unmark ‘Print Immediately’ and ‘delete after output’. Then, Press Enter.
Again, Press Enter.
Here, observe the rectangle box. “Both must be in Green and Maintained”.
As per the above screenshot we can notice that new archiving job has been generated. To View the job, please press button.
Job is in Active status. After the successful completion of the job, Deletion activity starts.
Press Go back (For Deletion Activity=> Click on Delete button )
Press the ‘Archive selection’ push button.
Select all the files for deletion and press enter.
In above screen,
- Select ‘Immediate’ Push button
- Select ‘Check’ Push button
- Finally ‘Save’ it.
- Select ‘Check’ Push button
After above selection parameters have been filled, Press Enter.
Here, observe the rectangle box. “All must be in Green and Maintained”.
Here we can notice the ‘Active’ Status jobs. Wait for ‘Finished‘ status.
After jobs finished successfully, The Post processing activity needs to be initiated in the following way!
Until this part, Deletion activity has been finished.
Post Processing:
TCODE: SARA
Press the ‘Postpr.’ Button as shown above
Save,
Press Enter
Go Back to the below screen..
Maintain Start date and Spool params as mentioned earlier.
Once the active job finished successfully, we can understand that post processing step also completed.
This is the SAP Archiving activity Process…
Cheers…
Regards
Kiran N
Good...
Thanks Ramesh.. 🙂
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Kiran N
Pretty detailed instruction
But I actually miss some very important points.
All those screens have many fields, but you do not explain in single word about the importance of those fields, why you entered the values, why you left other field empty, why you activated some boxes or why you did not. You create job job logs, you get spool files, but they are neither shown nor mentioned. And exact this part is missed by many freshers who are posting their questions in forums. if they had read the info from the spool or job log, then I am sure we had 50% less questions.
And last but least, why is this posted in ABAP forum, there is not a single coding line, the archiving forum in SCN is here: Information Lifecycle Management
Dear Jurgen,
Thanks for the comments.. 🙂
We just need to follow the above sequence of steps for SAP archiving activity. I accept it is not ABAP consultant activity. As per my understanding, respective functional and BASIS consultants need to perform this activity.
Some fields i have intentionally blocked(i mean white color marked). Rest all selections are standard!! Job triggering and other activities are standard ones.
Honestly, I was confused while creation of the document in SCN. I do not have an idea in which forum i should post this! Now, I cannot change this!!
From my end, I am happy if anyone places/transfers the same in appropriate forum. 🙂
Thanks for the help..
Regards
Kiran N
Good one Kiran .. Keep it up..:)
Thanks Rajesh.. 🙂
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Kiran N
Usefull info... 🙂
Thanks Rashmitha.. 🙂
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Kiran N