Archive Stock Cube with non-cumulative nature

Question

Hi All,
I have been trying to archive the Inventory (Stock) Infocube as we have more than couple of hundread million records in the cube and it is taking long time to execute query.
I know how to acrive the regular cubes and DSOs, but I couldn't find any helpful documentation where I can know how to archive the Infocube with non-cumulative nature or containing Marker update.
Can anyone pleaes post the link of document?
BTW, we are using BI7.0 SP15
Thanks,
Dhaval

Answer 1

Hi,
There are two ways of archiving data from a non-cumulative InfoCube - time slot archiving and archiving with selection characteristics.
Time slot archiving (recommended)
As an archiving method, you must choose for a non-cumulative InfoCube, time slot archiving for the time reference characteristic. When you recreate an archiving object for a non-cumulative InfoCube, this characteristic is also suggested by the system.
Only archive non-cumulative changes up to a specific point in the past. This reduces the volume of data in the InfoCube. The marker (= end non-cumulative) remains unchanged.
In the variants maintenance screen, in the archive administration, under Non-Cumulatives, choose the Movements Only option.
You are only able to archive the marker if you also archive all of the non-cumulative changes. Subsequently, the contents of the non-cumulative InfoCube are archived completely. In the variants maintenance screen, in the archive administration, under Non-Cumulatives, choose the Movements and End Non-cumulative option.
You must archive the non-cumulative changes (for all times) first, and then archive the marker in a separate archiving run, so that the non-cumulative changes and the marker are stored separately in the archive.
The advantage of time slot archiving is that archiving runs can be carried out periodically using a single variant with a relative time restriction. The alternative archiving method described below does not have this advantage.
Archiving with selection characteristics
In some cases, archiving based only on time slots does not have the required effect of reducing the volume of data in the InfoCube. This is the case, for example, if the non-cumulative bearing objects are subject to high fluctuations, meaning that data is constantly being loaded for new objects and old objects are made obsolete. With time slot archiving, the end non-cumulative remains for all objects until all of the data in the InfoCube is finally archived, even if all the non-cumulative changes for an object have been archived already.
In this case, you want to archive and delete completely any objects that are no longer active in the InfoCube. This means archiving the marker as well. For other objects that are still active, you only need to archive the non-cumulative changes from the past, which means the marker is retained.
When you define the archiving properties for a non-cumulative InfoCube, do not therefore choose the time slot archiving method. Instead, select individually the characteristics that are relevant to restricting archiving runs. The time reference characteristic should also be included in this selection whenever possible.
Using this archiving method, for each archiving run, you need to create selection conditions in a variant. In the variant for the archiving run, in addition to the selection conditions, you can also specify for the selected characteristics whether or not non-cumulative changes and marker data is archived. If you choose to archive marker data, be aware that the time selection contains the maximum value for time.
Please refer to the below link to archive the data for Stock Cube:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/3f/c219fe9a46194aa66d55254fdab182/frameset.htm
Hope this helps.
Regards
Tanuj