XI Archiving does not delete anything

Question

Hi all
I have set up Archiving/Delete in my XI.
I have from sxmb_adm Scheduled the Delete Job SAP_BC_XMB_DELETE_<client> and  SAP_BC_XMB_HIST_DELETE_<client>
and set up the appropriate parameters.
These Jobs run every night and they report that messages have been deleted
In the processing stats from sxmb_moni it reports 1000s of Deleted XML Messages
BUT - No messages are deleted.  I can still see them in sxmb_moni.
Why ??

Answer 1

Hi Jonny,
In addition to what Harald has said and your Table Switch is not enabled:
1) If these messages are IDOC messages then try scheduling the job SXMS_REFRESH_ADAPTER_STATUS well before the Delete Job runs and ensure it finishes before your delete job runs.
2) The messages you see may be marked for archiving. This is just my guess but you can find out using this procedure:
2.1) take the message id of the message and also the pipeline id. Pipeline Id can be found in the SOAP Header -> RunTime. Search with this string "SAP:PipelineIdExternal"
2.2) run the report RSXMB_CHECK_MESSAGES_STATE.
2.3) put in the msg id and the pipeline id and Exceute
2.4) This will tell you the exact status of the message.
2.5) if this displays - Next step: Flag for archiving, i believe you have to run the archiving job atleast once to get rid of these message
2.6) If the report says, the message is in State 29, then run the report RSWF_XI_UNUSED_MSGS which will mark the messages to State 3, so that they can be deleted the next time the deletion job runs. Remember that the End date of these messages will be marked as the day you run this report. So whenever the deletion job is allowed to delete messages for the above end date, they will be deleted.
Regards,
Balaji.M