Migration of archived classical g/L data to new G/L

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Hi,
Our client is in the process of archiving their financial data and they are using classical GL right now. After archiving they want to migrate to new GL. The question is after migrating to new GL would they be able to retrieve archived data. What are the issues/challenges they faced?
Please provide suitable datapoints for help.
Thanks.

Hello friend,
When you are reffering to Financial data, i presume that it is FI_DOCUMNT which is financial accounting documents. WHen it is archived, FI_DOCUMNT can be retrieved by Read Programs, Document relationship browser and Archive Info Structures.
But when retrieving the data from READ program is concerned, the process could be a bit slower as it could be time consuming process. Please note that the Post Processing Program should be executed after the WRITE/ARCHIVE program is executed.This is because the POst processing program helps in maintaining the indices which helps in retrieving the archived data.
If you are aware of any other / different practice, please share it.
Rgds...
Our client is in the process of archiving their financial data and they are using classical GL right now. After archiving they want to migrate to new GL. The question is after migrating to new GL would they be able to retrieve archived data. What are the issues/challenges they faced?
Please provide suitable datapoints for help.

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