SAP ILM and Data Archiving: Customer-Specific Developments (BIT670) Training Course

Introduction

• Understanding the data archiving process
• Overview of ILM and the data archiving process with ILM

ADK Development Tools

• Listing the components of the ADK development tools
• Advantages and usage of archiving classes

ILM Objects

• Introduction to ILM-objects
• Creating custom-specific ILM-objects
• Explaining how users can enhance an ILM object without making modifications
• Testing ILM-objects

Archiving Object and the Write/Delete Program

• Naming the programs that are in the scope of an archiving object
• Explaining delete programs
• Creating an archiving object
• Enhancing a standard archiving object

Sequential Read Programs

• Creating a sequential read program
• Reading out data that archiving classes wrote to the archive

Index-based Read Programs

• Creating field catalogs in SAP AS
• Writing index-based read programs or adding index accesses to existing ones
• Displaying optically archived original documents

Data Destruction Objects

• Naming the programs contained in the data destruction object
• Creating the program for a data destruction object
• Using transaction ILM_DESTRUCTION to work with data destruction objects

Summary and Next Steps