SAP Support for Data Archiving

Hello,
We just wanted to confirm if SAP will support issues if we encounter issues while restoring data archived via SARA. For example, if in the process of restoring archived data a defect is found, is this still supported by SAP?

Hi
Supported and the SAP Data Archiving Support Tools are SARA , DART and SARI
SARA --- SAP Archive Administration
All data archiving activities commence with Archive administration (transaction SARA). SARA provides the overall administration of archiving schedules and manages the archiving sessions. The process includes customization of objects, their conversion to archived sequential archived files and most importantly, their overall management. In addition to these, the archive administration process also retrieves the archived files and converts the data through an automated process, if there is a change in software, hardware or the data structure. The data archiving process is streamlined and simplified through the Central command of archiving administration
DART --- Data Retention Tool
A data retention strategy is required for retaining enterprise information for long periods of time. The Data Retention Tool (DART) provides this functionality. It is capable of extracting data, which is period-specific as well as any supporting information. DART transforms database objects into flat files that can be read by any third-party software designed for flat files. It is available as an add-on for older versions of SAP R/3, but is an integrated feature of the recent versions of SAP R/3.
SARI --- SAP Archive Information System
SARI provides much-needed retrieval capabilities against previously archived data. It requires the archive files be loaded into new tables in the database. In this approach, AS requires detailed, technical knowledge of the database table structure and field layouts. Database structure of an enterprise needs to be flexible and dynamic to be able to quickly adapt to organisational changes. It might happen that the current database structure is not compatible with the structure of database when archive files were initially generated. Archive Information System is a standard tool delivered by SAP that facilitates customized access to the archived data
Regards
Venkat

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Hi All,
I have query in SAP that when business will do the data archving in their R3 systems.
On which basis they will do data archiving?
Is there any minimum period that data need's to be archived?
before doing the data archiving what they will do ?
Regards
Srini

Hi Srini,
1. SAP suggestes to implement data archiving strategy as early as possible to manage database growth .
However pople think of archiving when they realise the problems like large data volumes,slow system resonse time,performance issues etc...
2. There is a proper way to implement Data Archiving . Database has to be anaylzed first for getting the top DB tables and Archiving objects.
3. Based on the DB analysis ,Data archiving plan has to be implenemted according to data management guide.
4. There is a minimum period known as residence time has to be completed before any data to be archived. Once the document is business completed and serverd its minimum required period in the Database ,it can be archived.
5, Before going for data archiving there are many steps to be followed like analysis,configuration etc that you can see in details at the link below :
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_47x200/helpdata/en/2e/9396345788c131e10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm
let me know if this helps you .
-Supriya
Edited by: Supriya Shrivastava on May 4, 2009 10:38 AM

Steps for Data Archiving

Dear Friends,
Can i know the steps for creating the archive file in data archiving.
or
If you have the links,please give it to me.
I promise to Reward.
Thanx in advance.
Geetu

Hi,
Check the links below for data archiving
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/6d/56a06a463411d189000000e8323d3a/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_46c/helpdata/en/2e/9396345788c131e10000009b38f83b/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/60/16d93f2e93f106e10000000a1550b0/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/ff/ff6c00409f11d1896b0000e8322d00/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/b6/ff0d794b9e11d192f20000e829fbc6/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/b0/3a618cd1d411d4b645006094192fe3/frameset.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/85/8d3584c47211d5993d00508b6b8b11/frameset.htm
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Until when give SAP support for version 7.30?

Hello,
Until when give SAP support for version 7.30?
How is the update from SAP GUI 7.30 to 7.40 handle?

Hello Herr Jürs,
As per the attached note http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/147519
support ends in July
SAP GUI for Windows Support Deadlines
7.30: Full support up to July 15th, 2015. On July 15th, 2015 the used development environment Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 will transit to Microsoft's "Extended Maintenance" mode. This means that Microsoft will not create any corrections for components which belong to this development environment anymore (unless the issue is security relevant). Therefore no extension of full support for SAP GUI for Windows 7.30 beyond this date is possible.
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A question on different options for data archival and compression

Hi Experts,
I have production database of about 5 terabyte size in production and about 50 GB in development/QA. I am on Oracle 11.2.0.3 on Linux. We have RMAN backups configured. I have a question about data archival stretegy. To keep the OLTP database size optimum, what options can be suggested for data archival?
1) Should each table have a archival stretegy?
2) What is the best way to archive data - should it be sent to a seperate archival database?
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You are using 11g and you can compress read only as well as read-write tables in 11g. Both read only and read write tables are the candidate for compression always. This will save space and could increase the performance but always test it before. This was not an option in 10g. Read the following docs.
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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/compression/faq-092157.html

[svn:osmf:] 11205: Fix bug FM-169: Trait support for data transfer sample doesn' t display bytes loaded and bytes total for SWF element

Revision: 11205
Author:   [email protected]
Date:     2009-10-27 15:04:26 -0700 (Tue, 27 Oct 2009)
Log Message:
Fix bug FM-169: Trait support for data transfer sample doesn't display bytes loaded and bytes total for SWF element
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JDBC Thin Driver Support for Data Encryption and Integrity

Hello JDev Team,
I am trying to implement JDBC Thin Driver Support for Data Encryption and Integrity.
It works fine with java.sql.Connection and java.util.Properties like in the following code:
DriverManager.registerDriver(new oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver());
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int level = AnoServices.REQUIRED;
props.put("oracle.net.encryption_client", Service.getLevelString(level));
props.put("oracle.net.encryption_types_client", "( RC4_40 )");
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props.put("oracle.net.crypto_checksum_types_client", "( MD5 )");
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etc...
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Victor,
No, you can't do this from DAC, but I've been discussing it with the developer, and we both think this capability would be useful to have, so I've logged it as an enhancement request.
I do have a question for you. Once you've made the JDBC connection, do you need access to the Connection object afterwards? We're thinking of how the change could be implemented, and one way would be to allow you to pass in a Properties object when creating your own NamedConnection.
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Any pre-requiste for data archiving

hi,
is there any pre-requiste for data archiving..
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or any condition
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Hi
Archive Selection
Use
For some archiving actions it is necessary to select individual archive files or whole archive sessions and make them available for the relevant action. You do this in the Archive Selection screen, which is accessible from the initial screen of the relevant action.
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Delete
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Prerequisites
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Criterion 1
Archive file status
Action
Criterion
Delete
Archive file status
Archived or
Stored (if sequence "Store before deletion" has been selected in Customizing)
Read
Archive file status Archived
or
Deleted
or
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Reload
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Postprocessing
All archive files have status Deleted
Criterion 2
The archive file must contain at least one data object. If you have performed an archiving session and maintained the variants so that no data objects were archived, the archive file is automatically deleted and no longer offered for selection.
Criterion 3
If a file is not accessible in the file system, the file is not offered for selection. A file is only offered for read if all the files in a session are accessible.
While checking the accessibility of a file, the system performs a read access for each file. This check process can take a long time if there are a lot of files. To optimize this process the access check can be de-/activated according to archive files in file system and archive files in an optical archive in archiving object-specific Customizing.
Criterion 4
For client-dependent archiving objects only the sessions for the current client are offered.
Criterion 5
An archiving session can only be reloaded if it has the status Complete or Archiving session is reloaded.
Features
In the Archive Selection screen, which you can access by choosing Archive Selection from the initial screen of the archiving action, you can either select complete archive sessions or individual archive files.

SAP Support for Windows 2008 R2 SP1

How can I find out if SAP supports Windows 2008 R2 SP1?
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Thanks

Hello Laurie,
The up to date kernels support Windows 2008R2
SAP supports the following 64-bit (x64, IA64) Windows Server 2008 R2 editions:
Standard edition, Enterprise edition, Datacenter edition, and for Itanium-Based Systems edition
Windows Server 2008 R2 Server Core is not supported by SAP.
See url
SAP on Microsoft Windows
Hope it's work for you,
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Need Step By Step Guide For Data Archiving

Can anybody provide me step by step Data Archiving guide for ECC 6.0 system.
I searched OSS but did not get any guide.
Thanks

Hi
You can go through the below links related to archiving which transactions we use for archiving the objects and how we do that.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_srm30/helpdata/en/15/c9df3b6ac34b44e10000000a114084/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/SAPHELP_NW04S/helpdata/EN/43/f0ed9f81917063e10000000a1553f6/content.htm
Basically Data archiving process comprises three major phases. They are:
1. Creating an archive file: The archived files of data are created in the SAP database by the Archiving Management system. The Management system reads the data from the database and writes it to the archive files in the background. In instances of archived files exceeding the maximum specified limit, or if the number of data objects exceed the stipulated limit in the system, then the system automatically creates new archive files.
At the end of the process of saving data into archive files, ADK triggers the system event SAP_ARCHIVING_WRITE_FINISHED, which is an indicator to the system to start next phase of archiving process.
2. Removing the archived data from the database:
While archiving management system writes data on the archive files, another program deletes it from the database permanently. The program checks whether the data has been transferred to the archive. It is quite important too as it is the last check performed by the system before deleting data permanently from the database. Several deletion programs run simultaneously, because the archiving program is much more faster than the deletion programs. This is important as it increases the efficiency of archiving process.
3. Transferring the archived files to a location outside the SAP database
Once the Archive management system has finished archiving the data, the next step is to save the archived files at a different location other than the SAP database. This can be accomplished by an automated process in the system or by a manual process. This step is optional since many enterprises may wish to keep the archived files within the current database. However, large enterprises transfer their data periodically as a part of their data archiving processes.
Hope this helps!!
Thanks and Kind Regards
Esha

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BW Upgrade from 3.x to 7.0
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The best practice for data archiving

Hi
My client has been using OnDemand for almost 2 years, there are around 2M records in the system(Activities), so just want to know what is the best practice of data archiving, we dont care much about the data in the 6 month ago.

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Archival is nothing but deletion.
Create a backup cube in BW. Copy the data from your planning cube to the backup cube, and then delete that data region from your planning cube.
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Regarding sending certificate to the third party for data archiving.

Hi,
I am stuck at one point in SAP. The steps I have followed are:
1. go to transaction code "oac0" (Display content repositories).
2. double click to any archive.
3. Here we can see a "Send Certificate", button.
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Generally we do validation of the certificate outside SAP in our application, e.g. in our JAVA code, using iaik jars (security jars).
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Mridul,
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Is Their Any Support For Data Aware Routing Through The Coherence DataGrid?

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Following paragraph describes the feature i m looking for(*Data Aware Nodes*)......
The Function Service can transparently route behavior to one or more nodes in the cluster. In the case of Data Aware Functions, the behavior can be directly routed to the node(s) that hosts the data needed to execute the function in parallel, stream and aggregate the results substantially reducing the time taken to execute complex data intensive tasks.
So please tell me is their any support for above said question. If this feature is their in coherence please help me with it's configuration and implementation as well.
Thanx

Hi JK thank you for your reply
I want to achieve Data Aware Routing in Parallel Execution (Parallel Function Execution).
Consider a case where i have three nodes (say Node A,B C) in coherence cluster with partitioned scheme. Now suppose we have Employee related objects stored in cache of Node A and Node C only, but not on Node B. Then i want to perform some operation on Employee objects only in parallel fashion.
In coherence i ll achieve this using map.invokeAll(collectionKeys, agent);_ from client program.
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SAP support for country-specific legal requirements

Just wondering if anyone could clarify how does SAP support work for the country-specific legal requirements. I'm sure in every country some new laws come to life regularly that affect the SAP customers and their ERP systems.
Case in point - on July 1st Mexican authority SAT decided to ask businesses to send them some XML files with some GL account information ('Anexo 24' - see the announcement in Spanish here). The deadline for the first file submission is October 2014.
This clearly affects every single SAP customer in the whole Mexico, as well as potentially many North America customers who have manufacturing facilities there. So would it be reasonable to expect SAP to come up with some standard solution? XML file extraction doesn't seem to be incredibly complex to me (although I might be off).
Another question - how would the customers know that SAP is aware of new laws and is taking some action? Could there be an announcement posted somewhere? There is a website for SAP Latin Americabut the latest announcement there is from June and nothing else is on the home page except for the HANA ads. (My Spanish is limited to "dos cervezas por favor", sorry if I missed something.)
In absence of such communication, naturally, the only option the individual customers have is to send a message to SAP. And that's where SAP replies with a copy/paste text (we got the same exact response as another SCN member here):
Feel free to maintain this incident opened, but contact us in the next three weeks, then we will be able to confirm if this legal requirement will be supported by SAP.
I'm confused - "IF"?! This is a legal requirement, there is no "if" for the business. Let's see if I got it right - we wait for 3 weeks, then SAP decides "nah, not gonna support that" (by the way, why is it on the customers to contact support again?) and every SAP customer in the whole country will have to scramble their own resources or pay for consulting (on top of SAP maintenance fees) to deliver the same exact set of programs on their own in under 2 months?
It could've been just an unfortunate choice of verbiage by Global Support, but I'm curious - is this really how the support for legal requirements supposed to work?
Thank you.

Hi Jelena,
Having been part of the SAP Globalization Services in Brazil, I understand a little bit of that process.
A few comments:
1) Localization of SAP solutions to country-specific regulation is under the responsibility of an area called Globalization Services. You can find more info about what they do here:
http://service.sap.com/globalization
2) Typically, those country-specific requirements are discussed in much details on the local ASUG chapters (at least that's how we did it in Brazil). That's why it's usually hard to find material in English, but I'd say that your local IT/Biz people in Mexico should be regulars in their local ASUG meetings, specially if they have a specific chapter to discuss Localization matters.
3) I found out this note with more specifics about "SAT Anexo 24".
http://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/2041490
Apparently SAP is still analyzing it.
Suggestion if you want to speed the analysis up: reach out to your commercial contact in SAP.
4) Regarding your statement about the time it takes for the analysis & delivery to take place.
As an SAP customer, you have all the right to complain about the service level you're getting, it's just that, having been on the other side of the table, I know some facts that sometimes may be taken for granted. For example, SAP do not have infinite maintenance resources. I do understand that all customers pay maintenance and need to have their demands addressed, but SAP does not have a bench of developers available for whenever a new demand appears. If there is a new demand, they need to estimate the efforts and accommodate it into the development resource planning.
5) From a legal perspective, there is a difference between Legal Change and New Legal Requirement. The latter, if differing too much from the initial purpose of the acquired software, might not necessarily be required by the Software provider to be fulfilled within the maintenance scope. I'm not saying that it's the case for this Mexican requirement, I'm just saying there is this possibility, generally.
My personal recommendation: get your local Mexico people to be closer to the SAP Mexico team. They are usually responsible to publish information about such local requirements and the SAP release plan.
Hope that helps.
Best,
Henrique.

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