Archiving of XML messages in Process Orchestration.

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

We are planning to setup the Archiving for the XML messages in our Process Orchestration 7.4 system with store type local file system.

Could some one clarify us on few queries over here which are as below.

1. If we use the local file system to store the archived XML messages, what are the actions need to be taken if file system is full,

do we need to clean up the file system manually or is there any automated method to do the same?

Thanks in advance..!!!

Best Regards,

Bala.

[former_member217117]

Hi Bala,

Have you managed to solve this? How do you clean up the file system of archived messages?

[Former Member]

Hi Christian,

unfortunately no...I have two minds here. one is cleaning the file system by deleting the archived message folders created by archive job manually after some specified period from archiving cockpit by just deleting the collection in hierarchy. second one is removing the content from the file system and placing them on tapes. This will make the archive location available for the archive job to place the new archive messages. if you have any experience here please share the practice that you have followed.

regards,

Bala

[mike_sibler]

Hi all,

just deleting the files on the file system is not a valid option since the archives are still referenced in the tables of the data archiving service (DAS).

There is a new background job provided by SAP to allow cleaning this archives. Please refer to Note "2174022 - Message Archive Deletion Job" for details.

Regards,
Mike

[Former Member]

Hi Mike,

Many thanks for your prompt answer on this..I will refer to the note and try to schedule the batch job after the Christmas vacation .

In the meanwhile I have a question regarding this. How we need to set retention period for the archived messages. Do the job delete all the messages or will it depend on the retention period. Can we set some rules in order to delete specific messages at some respective frequencies. Could you clarify me on this.

Thanks in Advance.

Happy Christmas in Advance.

Regards,

Bala.

[Former Member]

Hi Mike,

Now I have gone through the note and understood that the job suits our requirements. But the problem here is it is supported from SP13 only. when we tried to upgrade the system to SP13 it is throwing a message saying that SP13 is no longer available. when we further tried by selecting SP13 as target the content of sp12 is only being selected automatically. just let me know if SP13 is already available for us if you have any idea.

many thanks in Advance.

Regards,

Bala

[mike_sibler]

Hi Bala,

the job allows you to define rules. In these rules you can specify certain interfaces. The Note 2174022 describes how to set the retention period: "The job has a single additional parameter specifying the time, how long the message should be kept in the archive since the creation of the message in the Messaging System. If the retention period defined is less than the message retention in the DB, the message would be deleted from the archive on the next job run."

You are right: Note 2174022 is only available with J2EE SPS 7.4 SPS13 which will be released in June 2016. Please Note that ABAP Support Package Stack (SPS) is not relevant any longer since starting from 7.4 SPS12 the SPS on Java is not directly coupled. SPS13 ABAP is combined with SPS12 Java. Discussion with development showed that this feature can not be downported due to required UI change. So unfortunately you have to wait till June

Regards,

Mike

[Former Member]

Hi Mike,

Thank you so much for your prompt feedback. Now we need to keep an eye on the growing file system size .

This is very much unfortunate that this job cannot be deployed in any way .

Have to wait for June .........

Regards,

Bala.

[Former Member]

Hi Mike,

This time I have to come back to you with a different question. As we know that the retention period can be maintained by two parameters in the Services tab under java system properties. I maintained the retention period as 3 days and I could see that archiving is going on perfectly. But today to my surprise I have noticed that some of the messages are not getting archived. when I further checked I found that that particular messages have some different retention period other than the global setting. I checked in the "message retention" in SOA and found that there are no rules maintained. How come the messages have different retention periods other than the global setting.

Any idea on this please give me a hint.

Thank you

Regards,

Bala

[Harish]

Hi Bala,

Please check the below discussion (it might help)

SAP PI 7.3 (Single Stack - Java) XML Messages A... | SCN

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