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Summary
In one BI system, the volume of data increases constantly. Constant changes to business and legal
requirements mean that this data must be available for longer. Since keeping a large volume of data in the
system affects performance and increases administration efforts, we recommend BI administrator to apply
data archiving task if needed.
This guide gives a step-by-step demo to show how to use data archive process (DAP) feature in BI7.0.Firstly,
introduce how to create DAP and how to use it to archive data. Secondly, show how to apply cycled jobs to
do automatically. Lastly, show how to enable/disable archived data in query.
Author:
Wang Jin
Author Bio
Wang Jin is BW/BI engineer of Global Application Development of Lenovo. He is working in BI and Portal
area for past 3 years and has rich implementation experience in Enterprise Data Warehousing, Enterprise
Reporting for solutions to CRM and ECC Logistic functions. He also has over 3 years technical experience
with JAVA/.NET platform.
Table of Contents
Preface................................................................................................................................................................4
Part I Creating Archiving Process....................................................................................................................4
1.1 Using content menu ..................................................................................................................................4
Step 1: Enter Data warehousing Workbench ...............................................................................................................4
Step 2: General Settings tab ........................................................................................................................................5
Step 3: Selection profile ...............................................................................................................................................5
Step 4: Semantic group ...............................................................................................................................................6
Step 5: ADK settings ....................................................................................................................................................6
Step 6: Archiving tab....................................................................................................................................................7
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
Step 2
Step 3
: Enter selections........................................................................................................................................12
Step 4
Step 5
Step 6
: Execute the archive background job and monitor the process .................................................................14
Step 7
Step 8
Step 9
: Go to reload screen..................................................................................................................................16
Step 2
Step 3
Step 4
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Step 6
Step 7
Preface
Using the data archiving process, you can archive and store transaction data from InfoCubes and DataStore
objects. This function is not available for write-optimized DataStore objects.
The data archiving process consists of three main steps:
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You can lock the selected data area of the archiving request to prevent any changes.
This is necessary before data archiving begins.
2. Copy Status
3. Verification
Status
In the verification phase, the system checks that the write phase was successful and
that the data can be deleted from the InfoProvider.
4. Deletion Status
When the archived data is deleted from the InfoProvider, the archiving process is
complete.
5. Overall Status
When all the steps of the archiving request have been completed, you can no longer
change the status of the request.
Notes: In InfoCube Archiving Process, system requires infoCube is compressed. So maybe you will meet the
error below. The solution is: go to Collapse tab and execute compression job for it.
Archiving After
Step 6 : Execute the archive background job and monitor the process
Click Job Overview button
Finished!
Notes: you can check the archive files with T-CODE (AL11)
Step 7 : Delete records with exist archive files
Click delete button. Choose archive files which you want to delete in original infoProvider.
Step 9 : Execute the delete background job and monitor the process
Step 4 : Execute the reload background job and monitor the process
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