Archiving Project - Objectives of Workshops with Business and Development

The workshops help in identifying the process flows for each business object in scope. A business object may be sales order header table VBAK. This includes understanding if there are any customized transactions or tables in use.
Analyzing the capability of the standard SAP archiving objects to include the customizations.
Agreeing the residence and retention periods for the objects from the business, technical and audit point of view.


These workshops should generally be conducted as per the process areas.

Highlevel steps in an Archiving Project

Step 1: Do a health check of the SAP system. The transaction is DB02. Analyze the top size tables and fastest growing tables. Select what tables to be in scope for the project.

Step 2: Do table analysis on the selected tables to understand the different scenarios within the same table. The transaction is TAANA. 

Step 3: Find the Archiving object for the selected table. The transaction is DB15. 

Step 4: Customize the Technical settings and the application specific settings for the Archiving object in transaction SARA.

Step 5: Run the ‘Write’,’Delete’ or ‘Store’ programs of the Archiving Object as required in the same SARA transaction.