PR Archiving Issue

[Former Member]

Hi all,

In our production system we have 4 diffeent application servers. I'm using the standard SAP program for archiving PR's.

Witht the standard program, scheduled in backgreouond, i'm able to force the archieve files to be written onto one of the application servers. however, the same program schedules background jobs for detions of the PR records.

This job reads the files from the application server and then deletes it from the Database.

However, this deletion job gets scheduled on any one of the 4 available application servers...Since the file os written to only one application server, 3 out of 4 deletion job fails as its not able to find the archive files.

My query is that is there any way through some config setting, can i force the deltion jobs to be created and executed on only 1 application server.

P.S: we are using a local file system on the application server. There are no global file system in place.

Your help would be appreciated.

Thanks n Regards

Dharmendra Rara

[Former Member]

Missed out one point...These deletion jobs are standard jobs created by the standard sap program

[Former Member]

Hi Dharmendra,

If you are using r/3 4.7 and above, you can make use of the following feature:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/6d/56a06a463411d189000000e8323d3a/frameset.htm

else, you can try using absolute path. e.g
machine-name\path

Hope this helps,

Naveen

[Former Member]

Hi Dharmendra,

If you are using r/3 4.7 and above, you can use the following feature:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/6d/56a06a463411d189000000e8323d3a/frameset.htm

Else you can try using absolute path e.g.
machine-name\path

hope this helps,

Naveen

[Former Member]

Thats a huge document to check out. I'll check it later...

however, regarding using absolute path, can u throw some light into that.

Like i said before, we dont have a common location wherein all the 4 application server looks in...

All the file system/directory structure currently setup on the 4 application servers are local to thise servers...

Thus a common /tmp/ on all 4 application servers would be diferent memory locations.

Can u help me out further ?

Thanks n regards

Dharmendra Rara

[Former Member]

Dharmendra,

Its a one page document which you have to read... is one page huge??

absolute path... if u have ur physical path on machine A, then give your physical path in transaction FILE as
machine-A/tmp/<FILENAME>, so even if you run from various servers, all servers will look into the absolute path.

Regards,

Naveen

[Former Member]

Hi Navin,

the link which u sent points to a topic called "Data Archiving (CA-ARC)". This has a symbol (something like <- ->) which when u clik opens up the tree structure on the left. This tree structure is pretty big...the page to which the link points to has just a single paragraph...and moreover that doc explains the operations of the SARA transaction which i have explored a lot.

Anyways, ur option of the machine path looks good, let me check it out....

thanks for the help....

regards

Dharmendra rara

[Former Member]

in the link i sent, look at the topic 'Server Group for Background Processing'.. follow the path Archiving Application data->Introduction to Data Archiving -> Customizing -> Cross-Archiving Object Customizing -> Server Group for Background Processing

[Former Member]

Hi Naveen,

thanks for that link...the solution worked. i was trying to check for Customizing setting for a single object (MM_EBAN). The setting that was mentioned in that link was a cross object customizing. Once done, the deletion jobs were forced on the correct application server.

Thanks a Lot for ur Help

Regards

Dharmendra