Manage resources using KTern.AI

How does KTern manages the resources in the existing SAP ECC system?

Introduction

SAP Data Archiving Process essentially involves three major steps:

  1. Creating archive files
  2. Running delete programs
  3. Storing the archive file
The archiving recommendation feature present in KTern, helps in automatically analyzing the system and identifying the documents and custom programs which can be archived.
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The platform helps the user to archive these data to any third party storage database.
This feature is predominantly used by Project Managers, Solution Architects and the key Stakeholders from the customer side.

Archiving Recommendation

KTern provides a detailed report on archiving recommendations. The results are as follows:

  1. Documents archiving potential.
  2. Custom Programs archiving potential
1. Navigating
Navigate to Digital Maps Cockpit and Select Landscape assessment.


2. Archiving Recommendation
2.1 Overview List
This provides a brief list of documents and custom programs which can be archived.


2.2 Insights
Select the "rocket" action button from the Overview list.


The Insights into archiving provides :
1. The Archiving Potential of database


2. Number of Custom Objects to be archived.


3. Number of Documents to be archived.


The platform also provides a graphical representation of the Document types which can be archived :

Notes
Archiving decreases the load on the database to store files.

2.3 Custom Programs Archiving Potential.
All Standard SAP tables have corresponding archiving objects that can be configured to perform archiving based on the required conditions and at specific time periods. Since the development of SAP objects generally involves the creation of custom Z-Tables there may arise a need for the creation of custom archiving objects for the newly created tables.

All archiving objects have the following reports linked to them to achieve end-to-end archiving.

  1. Write Program
  2. Delete Program
  3. Reload Program
  4. Pre-Processing Program
  5. Post-Processing Program

2.4 Documents Archiving Potential
KTern determines the potential documents in an SAP ECC system that you can archive. All types of documents such as Material Ledger documents, change documents, purchase documents can be archived. Archiving documents means that the data can be removed from the database and archive it in the file system, then store the data from the file system in external archives.



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Moving to S/4HANA with minimal amount of data will not only ease the transition process but also reduce significant costs in the future.