Data Aging on SAP HANA

Are there any prerequisites for a table to participate in Data Aging in SAP S/4HANA?

A table can participate in Data Aging in case it is part of one or many Data Aging Objects (Transaction DAGOBJ) and it is part in one Partition Object (Transaction DAGPTC). Additionally it has to have the additional column _DATAAGING, which is the basis for the time selection partitioning. This column is automatically added once…

Do I need an additional License for Data Aging?

No, data aging is not a licensed product. The Data Aging framework is available with NetWeaver release 740 SP05 onwards.

Are there any prerequisites to use Data Aging in SAP S/4HANA?

Data Aging in only available in SAP Business Suite on HANA and S/4HANA Applications (starting with SAP NetWeaver 7.4 SP05). To apply Data Aging in SAP HANA there are only certain prerequisites on ABAP side: The SAP application must provide Data Aging Objects The Profile Parameter abap/data_aging is set to ‘on’ The Data Aging business…

What is the difference between Archiving and Data Aging in SAP S/4HANA?

In SAP HANA, Data Aging is different to Archiving in the sense that cold data is still kept within the SAP HANA Database and remains accessible via SQL in the very same table as the hot data (yet in another partition). Whereas archived data – strictly read-only – is written to an archive file and…

What are the benefits of Data Aging in SAP HANA within SAP S/4HANA?

The goal of aging is to both reduce the main memory footprint and speed up database queries by only keeping operationally relevant (hot) data in main memory. In contrast to this, cold data is placed primarily on (less expensive but usually slower) secondary storage and accessible via SQL on request.

Where do I find more information about Data Aging?

For application documentation about Data Aging, see SAP NetWeaver Library on SAP Help Portal -> SAP NetWeaver Platform -> e.g. SAP NetWeaver 7.5 -> Function-Oriented View -> Solution Life Cycle Management -> Data Aging

What is Data Aging in SAP S/4HANA?

Data Aging is a Suite-tailored data management concept for reducing the SAP HANA memory footprint, based on a Data Aging Framework provided by SAP NetWeaver ABAP. Data Aging is available for SAP Business Suite on HANA and SAP S/4HANA applications and offers the option of moving large amounts of data within SAP HANA in order…