Archiving Change Documents - XML Archiving.

Question

Hello Archiving experts,
I need to archive change documents of my application. There is already a change document archiving class "CHGDOCU" which I can use for this. But this is only for ADK based approach.
Basically, I want to know if there is any Archiving class available for archiving change documents in XML based archiving?
Thanks for your help.
Best Regards,
Pramod

Answer 1

Hi Thomas,
if you want to go with SARA, you would have to archive hundreds of objects, since change documents are (as of 4.5B, I think) no longer deleted/archived by themselves, but always with their respective objects.
You can easily check that for yourself: in transaction DB15 click on the radio-button 'Archiving Objects' --> Objects for Table --> CDCLS (you can only view the cluster, not it's components). You will get a list of all archiving objects that 'contain' change documents.
That leaves you the option to find out, to which object most of your 500 mio. change document positions belong, but my guess would be that this would be quite a lot ... so either, you are considering an overall archiving project (which is no short-term goal) or you use one of the reports that make a 'hard-cleanup' of CDCLS --> there are various notes in OSS about that topic, make sure you read them all, since the impact is not to be necglected.
As for the artice in question, you may not need it ... there are 33 hits for object CHANGEDOCU in OSS - I think you can get all the information you need there, however - if you want to use this object, please keep in mind that you are cutting the connection between the business object and the changedocu - like described in note 1325862.