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BETR_RDL_ARCH_PREPROC - RDL Archiving: Preprocessing Program
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Purpose
Preprocessing program for archiving document data of a Billing Engine Application.
Integration
Prerequisites
Features
Selection
The quantity of documents to be archived can be restricted using different selection conditions, such as billing type, billing date, payer, and so on. Only documents that have already been transferred to Accounting or have been completed by being canceled (Transfer Status to Accounting) and have not been marked as archivable are archived.
Only documents that have already exceeded their residence time are selected for archiving. The residence time specifies the number of days that have to have elapsed before a billing document can be archived (Residence Time of a Billing Document in Days). It is stored in Customizing for billing types (Customizing: Archiving Control in Billing). The processing date in the billing header is used as the base date when determining whether a billing document has already exceeded its residence time. The billing documents of a billing type are excluded from archiving if no residence time has been defined for this billing type.
If a billing document is selected for archiving in the preprocessing program, it is flagged as archivable (Flag: Billing Document Is Archivable)in the billing header. Billing documents that have been flagged as archivable cannot be changed.
You can start the preprocessing program in both the test run and productive run by flagging the selected billing documents. In the test run, the billing documents are not flagged. In CRM Billing, you can activate an additional archivability check using the flag Enhanced Checks. Activating this flag has a negative impact on the performance of thepreprocessing program due to the additional checks. SAP strongly recommends that you carry out these checks in order to prevent inconsistencies in connection with business processes such as rejection of transaction items, cancellation of goods issue, and so on. If the flag is set, the following checks are carried out:
- For all documents to be archived, with the exception of cancellation billing documents, a check is run to determine whether the corresponding CRM transaction and, if applicable, the corresponding R/3 delivery has already been archived. If the CRM transaction or the R/3 delivery are still in the database, the billing document is removed from archiving and a message is recorded in the run log. The additional check can, therefore, only be used if the CRM transactions and, if applicable, the R/3 deliveries are both archived and then deleted from the database after archiving.
- For cancellation billing documents, a check is run to determine whether the corresponding canceled billing document has already been archived or is selected for archiving. If the corresponding canceled billing document has not yet been selected for archiving, the cancellation billing document is removed from archiving, and a message is placed in the run log.
Achtung: It is possible for the enhanced check of a cancellation billing document to fail, and for a subsequent check to reveal that the corresponding canceled billing document has already been selected for archiving. This occurs when the corresponding canceled billing document was selected for archiving in this run, and this selection took place before the enhanced check was carried out on the cancellation billing document. In this case, the cancellation document is selected for archiving the next time the preprocessing program is run.
Standard Variants
Output
Activities
The preprocessing program is scheduled using Archive Administration. Select the relevant object BEA_aaaa (aaaa stands for the Billing Engine Application, for example CRMB for CRM Billing).
Additional functions in archiving of document data of a Billing Engine Application:
- Write Program: Write billing documents to the archive file
- Delete Program: Delete archived data
- Postprocessing Program: Delete rejected, non-billed billing due list items
Example
CPI1466 during Backup Vendor Master (General Section)
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