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Archiving - Archive Infostructure

Former Member — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:12:43 GMT

Hi All,

Activation of archive info structure creates a transparent table a and a report pgm to fill the table in the deletion run.

This table contain all the data which we are archiving thro SARA.Pls correct me if I am wrong.

If my understanding of archiving is correct then whats the purpose(in terms of space gain) of doing archiving process if the data is removed from one table and placed in another table in the same database??

Inputs are appreciated.

Thanks,

Priya.

Re: Archiving - Archive Infostructure

Former Member — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:05:25 GMT

Hello,

Archive info structures only contain a subset of the data that has been archived. It also contains "pointers" to where the rest of the archived data is located within the stored archive files. The archive info structure should be limited to contain only those fields which will be used to search for the relevant data.

Hope this helps.

Best Regards,

Karin Tillotson

Re: Archiving - Archive Infostructure

Former Member — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:59:26 GMT

Thank you very much Karin.

Re: Archiving - Archive Infostructure

Former Member — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 17:09:03 GMT

HI Priya,

Besides there is one more point. AIS reads the data only from the archived data base ( off Line ). By building an efficient infostructure, you can stream line the fields for which u want to find the details of the archived file.Like for eg : BUKRS field(company Code), GJAHR(Fyscal year ) and MONAT ( Posting Period).