Creating Data Archiving Processes

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1 Creating Data Archiving Processes
1.1 Creating Near-Line Storage Connections

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 1 Creating Data Archiving Processes

Prerequisites
If you want to use third-party near-line storage, the connection for the third-party solution must be implemented and a near-line connection must be set up.
More information: Creating Near-Line Storage Connections

Procedure
1. Call the data archiving process maintenance (transaction RSDAP).
2. Select an InfoProvider for which the data archiving process is to be created.
3. Choose Edit . The data archiving process contains the same technical name as the InfoProvider. Enter a description.

Tab Page: General Settings

4. You can select whether you want to use ADK-based archiving, near-line storage, or both.

Tab Page: Selection Profile

5. You specify which data from the InfoProvider is selected for the archiving run.
With reference to the selected time characteristic, the time slice archiving always creates time intervals that directly follow on from one another. These can be
connected, with conditions, to additional, time-independent partitioning characteristics. You can use these characteristics to restrict the selection further.
To allow for optimum prerequisites for the later use of queries on near-line storage, the selected time characteristic must also be highly relevant for the
queries.
For a DataStore object, you can only select a key characteristic as the partitioning characteristic in time slice archiving. The characteristic for the time slice
generation can also be a non key characteristic. However, you must then select a separate partitioning characteristic from the key with a largely monotonous
time reference and to which the time conditions can be applied (such as Clearing Date in the data part and Document Number in the key). At runtime, the
system attempts to apply the time restriction to a partitioning characteristic restriction. In the InfoCube, all characteristics always count as key characteristics.

Tab Page: Semantic Group

6. You can form semantic groups to archive the data in a sorted way.
The system reads from the database after sorting according to grouping characteristics (the order is important). Records with the same specifications in the
grouping characteristics are written to the archive as one data object.
If no characteristic is selected, the storage in the archive is not sorted and technical criteria are used for classification (fixed size) into data objects.

Tab Page: ADK

7. Specify the logical file name.
8. Define a maximum size for the generated archive files. You must take the memory capacity of your storage medium into account. This can be restricted by
the number of data objects. The limit that is reached first is the deciding one. During an archiving run, a new file is created when the maximum size is
reached.
9. You can trigger delete jobs by events.
10. You can specify the storage system and delete sequence. You only need to specify the storage system and delete sequence if you are using a separate
storage system.

Tab Page: Near-Line Storage

11. Specify a maximum size for the data package. You must take the memory capacity of your storage medium into account. This can be restricted by the
number of data objects. The limit that is reached first is the deciding one. During an archiving run, a new data package is created when the maximum size is
reached.
12. Activate the data archiving process. If the data archiving process is active, it is no longer possible to change many of the settings.

Result
Depending on how the archiving process is modeled, an archiving object or a connection to near-line storage is generated.
For ADK-based archiving, an archiving object is generated in the local system. The namespace for archiving objects consists of "BW" as the prefix, then a
character for the object type ("C" = InfoCube, "O" = DataStore object A version), and finally the object name. Only seven characters are available for the name,
since only ten characters are available for the whole name.
You can now schedule the data archiving process. More information:
Near-line and ADK-based data archiving processes: Scheduling Data Archiving Processes Using Process Chains
Purely ADK-based data archiving processes: Scheduling Data Archiving Processes (ADK-Based)
Manual request processing: Creating and Executing Archiving Requests

Creating Near-Line Storage Connections

Use
If you want to create a data archiving process with near-line storage, you must first of all create a connection to your near-line storage.

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 Prerequisites
You have already implemented the connection of a near-line storage solution from a third-party provider.

Procedure
1. You can call the transaction for processing near-line storage in Customizing under SAP Customizing Implementation Guide → SAP NetWeaver
→ Business Intelligence → General BI Settings → Edit Near-Line Storage Connection or in the Data Warehousing Workbench under Administration →
Current Settings → Near-Line Storage Connections.
2. Choose New Entries .
3. Enter a name for the near-line storage connection. This name is then offered to you for selection when you create a data archiving process.
4. Enter the name of the class that implements the connection of the near-line storage.
5. The specifications for fields Destination and Connection Parameter are determined by your near-line storage solution.
6. Save your entries. When you save, the connection to the near-line storage solution is opened and then closed again. In doing so, the near-line storage solution
returns a status indicating whether the connection is working, as well as system information. In the upper area of the screen, the system displays the
connection with its status and system information. In the lower area of the screen, the log is displayed.

Note that you should not change a near-line storage connection if it is being used in an active data archiving process. Above all, the implementing
class should not be changed in this case.

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