Archive infostructure customizing when active

[jespergk]

Hi Experts

We have archived object ISU_BCONT using standard infostructure SAP_ISU_BCONT.

When we try to read from archive through transaction SARI we can see the list, but it is not possible to open object (business contact). By debugging I found out that the infostructure does not have any values in the two customizing options "Field name Processing" and "Offset Processing". It works fine in our test system which have a "D" in both ("File name is data field" and "Offset is data field"). The customizing table is AIND_STR1.

I am guessing it is not possible to change the infostructure after the archiving have been done? Even changing a standard infostructure might not be possible?

We have also tried to use the report "REARCH_BCONT_READ_SEQ". That seems to try to open all archiving files in the beginning, but that also fails which seems to be a simple timeout - as far as I can tell it loops through ALL records which is not feasible. This even when a specific object and date is given as input.

Any help would be deeply appreciated!

[3070856]

Hi Jesper.

It is possible to "change" a customer info structure after archiving has started. It is actually quite flexible.

There is a "copy" function that will even "move" (re-assign) the entries from the one reference to the other. (I have used in partitioning but don't see why it wouldn't work elsewhere. It has a test function you can use to check). You can also delete and rebuild the entries in the info structure if all data is intact.

You are correct that you should never change a SAP std info structure or catalog. Always create your own. (Catalogue only if required).

As this post is quite old, I'll leave at that for now.

[jespergk]

So we went ahead and did it, and thankfully it worked without issues and the offset was added as expected based on the customizing. First it would not activate the program but I think it was because we forgot to delete the tables.

Filling the structures went pretty fast - our biggest client had ~500k archived objects and that took about 15 minutes.

Now we can finally access the archived objects from SARI with good performance.

[3070856]

Ignore my previous responses - glad it came right