Document attachment in SAP

Hello Everybody ,
We are hainvg SAP on DB2 and AS/400
I have a quesetion regarding attachmenet done in SAP .
1. Where the documents are stored in SAP ?
2. Are all documents are stored in single file or database table ?
3. How can we delete them ?
Thanks in Advance .
Dhaval Raje

Hi Dhaval,
Have a look at SAP Note 530792 (Storing documents in the generic object services). It describes where documents are stored when stored in the database by Generic Object Services (GOS). SAP Note 491271 (Authorizations for generic object services) describes how to control authority to storing documents in the database.
Your SAP license includes the SAP Content Server so you have the ability to store attachments in an external system without much additional cost. The downside of the SAP Content Server is that it doesn't run on OS/400 so you have to have a Windows or *nix server in your landscape. Backup coordination also becomes an issue when you store the documents on a separate server. We FTP the Content Server backup file to the iSeries so it is included on our iSeries backup. This allows us to keep documents out of the operational database, but provides us with a common backup for recovery purposes. We're currently running the SAP Content Server on Windows, but may consider a Linux partition in the future.
HTH,
Stan

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