Archive application logs - BC_SBAL

Hi
We have a lot of entries in our BALHDR table that we want to archive. Problem is that millions of these are registered with expiry date = 31.12.9999. How can we archive these entries?
Note 195157 describes deletion of entries - that is not an option.
In addition we want to keep the last year's logs in our system.
Thank you
regards Ole

You have a problem there as SAP standard archiving program for archiving object BC_SBAL will not archive an entry with expiry date in the future. I'd suggest going for the following options (both requiring customizing development):
a) Copy standard write program "SBAL_ARCHIVE" and modify it in a sense that SAP doesn't care about the expiry date or at least if the expiry date is 31.12.9999.
b) Create a custom program that will modify expiry date from 31.12.9999 to something more reasonable like a year from today 08.02.2012.
You can achieve keeping the last year's log in your system by maintaining the variant for write program SBAL_ARCHIVE through transaction SARA. On variant attributes, you have to set the "Creation date: to" field to be dynamic and equal to Current date - 366 days.
Hope this helps.

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