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Delete generated change document structure

uta_bchner — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:35:22 GMT

Hi everybody,

In my system I have a dictionary table which is not needed anymore, and I would like to delete it.

The problem is that the tables was part of a change document object, and even though I took it out and regenerated the object, there is still a change document structure containing the table.

I cannot delete the structure because it was generated and therefore lies in the SAP namespace (VZ...). Neither can I delete the table, because it is still being used in the structure.

Any Idea about what I could do to get both structure and table deleted?

Thanks in advance,

Uta

Re: Delete generated change document structure

vijay_hariharan — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:45:10 GMT

Hello,

It seems there is a Change document object created, you may check transaction SCDO with your table name(or Table TCDOB).. if the table is not needed then assume the Change document object is also not needed.. you should be able to delete it from here..

Regards,
Vijay

Re: Delete generated change document structure

uta_bchner — Tue, 14 Dec 2021 14:49:35 GMT

Hi Vijay,

thanks for your quick answer.

There was a change document object which contained the table. I took the table out of the object and regenerated the object.

But the structure is still there, it wasn't deleted when regenerating the change document object. And I cannot delete it manually, because it is not in the customer namespace.

Re: Delete generated change document structure

vijay_hariharan — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 08:49:27 GMT

Hello,

The delete i meant was in SCDO initial screen scdo-del.jpg
The Change document object for a Custom table should be custom ideally.. Can't test a deletion but i assume, you may also have to comment/remove code which use the Generated Function modules from this Change document object..

Regards,
Vijay

Re: Delete generated change document structure

uta_bchner — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 13:00:41 GMT

Hi Vijay,

what you suggest should work well when there is a change document object containing only this one table. In this case, the whole object can be deleted.

In my case, however, the table was only one of several tables in the object, and the object is still needed for the other tables. So it cannot be deleted.

I gave up deleting the objects meanwhile and just moved the table to a package for deprecated objects.

The generated structures can be neither deleted nor moved as it seems, so I'll just have to live with them remaining in the system.

If anyone has any further idea, I'd be still interested. But for now this ist my "solution".

Regards,

Uta