Archiving change documents: any experience?

[Former Member]

Hi,

We hav some 500 million entries in CDPOS and must archive.

Can anyone share experience in archiving change documents?

Should I use TX SARA like archiving any other business object?

Thanks in advance

T

[Former Member]

Hi,

We hav some 500 million entries in CDPOS and must archive.

Can anyone share experience in archiving change documents?

Should I use TX SARA like archiving any other business object?

Thanks in advance

T

[Former Member]

>

> Hi, 
> We hav some 500 million entries in CDPOS and must archive. 
> Can anyone share experience in archiving change documents?
> Should I use TX SARA like archiving any other business object?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> T

I think SARA should be way to go, to be honest I haven't done it myself. But came across this link of an article from someone,

http://www.erptips.com/Snippet1/pydenqgohf.pdf

This may help.

Please share your experience once you decide on a strategy, to be of benefit to us. Good Luck!

[Former Member]

Hi,

Thanks for providing the link.

This seems to be exactly the document I am searching for .

Unfortunately i can only display the first 2 pages.

Do I have to pay for the entire download?

Thomas

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

The best documents that you can get is from SAP HELP and SDN. Search SAP Help for a very good step by step guide. And you can also search SDN for many PDF's.

Hope this help.

Thanks,

Samantak.

[Former Member]

NO. my reply iwas "n response to: V bhandari ".

I want to have this ERPtips.com document.

This seems to be very helpful (reading the first 2 pages...):

T

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

if you want to go with SARA, you would have to archive hundreds of objects, since change documents are (as of 4.5B, I think) no longer deleted/archived by themselves, but always with their respective objects.

You can easily check that for yourself: in transaction DB15 click on the radio-button 'Archiving Objects' --> Objects for Table --> CDCLS (you can only view the cluster, not it's components). You will get a list of all archiving objects that 'contain' change documents.

That leaves you the option to find out, to which object most of your 500 mio. change document positions belong, but my guess would be that this would be quite a lot ... so either, you are considering an overall archiving project (which is no short-term goal) or you use one of the reports that make a 'hard-cleanup' of CDCLS --> there are various notes in OSS about that topic, make sure you read them all, since the impact is not to be necglected.

As for the artice in question, you may not need it ... there are 33 hits for object CHANGEDOCU in OSS - I think you can get all the information you need there, however - if you want to use this object, please keep in mind that you are cutting the connection between the business object and the changedocu - like described in note 1325862.

[Former Member]

>

> Hi,
> Thanks for providing the link. 
> This seems to be exactly the document I am searching for .
> Unfortunately i can only display the first 2 pages. 
> Do I have to pay for the entire download?
> 
> Thomas

Hi,

Yes looks like, ERPtips is a paid site

Cheers,

[Former Member]

Hi Thomas,

SAP Archiving will help you in archiving the huge amount of data generated by CDPOS table. But you have to look for an Archiving Object which will be executed for all the archiving related functionality.

Have a look at the following link for a complete step by step guide { SAP Archiving | http://help.sap.com/saphelp_NW04s/helpdata/en/8f/f3b142304cc511e10000000a1550b0/content.htm}

Scan the forum for a huge resource of information.

Hope this will help you to start with the Archiving process. Happy Archiving...

Thanks,

Samantak.