Data Archiving and ABAP

[Former Member]

Hi All,

I am an ABAPer and recently came accross the process of data archiving..

Can anyone tell me what significance data archiving has w.r.t ABAP.Are they interrelated at any point??

Waiting for Reply..

Shilpa

[former_member194613]

Archiving is process

ABAP is a programming language

What is the relation of these two?

You can archive in the SAP system, there is a lot of support in the standard, the newest functionality is call ILM

(information lifecycle management).

The problem in archiving is to find out which data can be taken out of the system and be stored in the archive or deleted.

There you must take care, that the archive has consistent data and the left-over in the system is consistent.

Archiving has of course positive effects on performance, the tables become smaller.

Siegfried

[Former Member]

Hi..

U mistook my question..

I wanted to know that during data archiving does a functional consultant need the help of an abaper..?

[Former Member]

Hi Shilpa,

As a developer you must be aware of the fact that what ever application are provided by SAP they all are using codes written in ABAP in background .

Similarly we have a tool Archive Developent Kit (ADK) provided by SAP that uses various programs written in ABAP grouped in the form of Archive object to perform Archiving Successfully in any system.

Yes Archiving and ABAP both are interrelated and an ABPER can very well understand how actually there programs functions at runtime while we Archive data from the database.

Another imporeant thing is apart from the standard Archive Objects provided by SAP sometimes requiremnets comes for custom Objects to be created which requires good indepth knowledge of ABAP.

I hope my answer will help you understand the assosiation of ABAP and Data Archiving.

For more you can go through the below link ::

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/8d/3e4d22462a11d189000000e8323d3a/frameset.htm

-Supriya

[Former Member]

Hi Supriya,

Thanks for the info.

We can create custom object thru AOBJ.But I dont know how to proceed further..

Can you help me?

Shilpa

[Former Member]

Hi Shilpa,

I have never created any custom archive object but there is a way to create it. You need to first develope all the required programs like preproccessing,write,delete and read similart o the standard one. Then you need to assiciate them and create an archive object .

Below link will provide you the details information for the same .

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/7c/aea63a9c69612fe10000000a114084/frameset.htm

-Thanks

Supriya