Description
This report archives inventory history records that have been in theWarehouse Management system for a specified number of days. It archivesrecords in which differences have been cleared and the status is"completed".
Using this program, it is possible to archive inventory history recordsin several warehouse numbers simultaneously.
It is also possible to display a summary list of the number ofinventory history records that will be archived and deleted from thesystem before initiating the process. See the instructions under"Output" below.
In the attributes of the report, you must enter the value L_ARCH intothe authorization group. In this way, you can protect the archivingprograms from being started unintentionally. For this purpose, anauthorization with the value L_ARCH must be maintained for theauthorization object S_PROGRAM and this value must also be entered intothe respective user profiles. The authorization SAP_ALL must beremoved from the user profiles.

Precondition
We recommend that you do not start this report directly, but ratherwith the transaction /nSARA which initializes the generalarchiving administration program.
You should become particulary familiar with the transaction/nSARA before you startan archiving program. Archiving and the deletion of inventory historyrecords from the data base have been separated into two reports inRelease 3.0 of the SAP system. The deletion report can only deletedata that it reads from the Archive.
The archive report creates the archives and then starts the deletionprogram as a job for each archive. The size of the archive files canbe set in advance. For much of the data, the performance can beimproved significantly in this manner since archiving and deletionprograms are processed simultaneously.
You set up the system as follows:
Check the path and archive names that are in the platform-independenttable of archive names. The system then references a logical data paththat you can maintain as a system parameter.
Create variants for the reports:
For the deletion report use transaction /nSARA.
For the archiving report use transaction /nSARA.
Define the size of the archive file in MB and/or limit the maximumnumber of documents per archive file using transaction /nSARA.
If you want to save the archive optically, you maintain the data foroptical archiving with transaction /nSARA. For information aboutoptical archiving, see the documentation that is marked as such.Optical archiving can be used as a simple add-on function.

Output
If you start this report without deleting inventory history records andwithout archiving (that is, if you select only the check box forTest run), the system displays a summary log with the number ofinventory history records that will be archived from each table. Whenyou start the report to archive and delete inventory history recordsusing the transaction /nSARA, the system does not display a logonline.
In any case, you have to maintain the spool data and can decide whetheryou want the summary of the archived and deleted documents to beprinted or stored in a spool file.
To display data in the archive, use report RLRH0001.
You can find archiving management data using the transaction/nSARA. The PATH and FILE names are of particular significance.
To display an overview with job processing data, you use the joboverview transaction /nSM37.