PM Notification archiving -clarification -reg

Question

HI,
While planning for PM notifications archiving , io the preprocessing step  of the tcode SARA , we dont find any reference date .
We need to archive notification which are changed before two years
we can take the details from QMEL like table  and input in SARA , but going forward we need to schedule back ground jobs for the notifications archiving
do we need to do customization soem where to get the option of date here in the preprocessing stpe ?
now we have only
notification type
notification number
equipment
functional location
where as in the case of PM orders (object :PM_ORDER) we have the DLFl date or change date as reference
pl suggest
regards,
Madhu Kiran

Answer 1

Hi,
For PM Orders and Notifications two flags need to be set: deletion flag and deletion indicator.
For PM Order, the pre-processing variant can set both: deletion flag and deletion indicator.
For PM Notification, the pre-processing variant can only set the second one: deletion indicator. Hence, you can either manually set the deletion flag or create a custom program to set this deletion flag for you. Then SAP will analyse (in the pre-processing program), those notifications flagged for deletion and set the deletion indicator if possible.
After this, the write archiving program will pick up those notifications with deletion indicator set and archive them.
Hope this makes sense now.