Category Archives: BASIS

Download Files from ArchiveLink

Let’s look at how to access files stored in ArchiveLink and download them to the desktop. In the linked article, we discussed a way to write files to the SAP archive server. In this article, we will develop an ABAP program to read files from the archive server. First, we will look into the Function […]

Store Files in SAP ArchiveLink

In this article, we will discuss the functionality of ArchiveLink, a data storage interface provided by SAP for archiving documents. We will first learn what the purpose of ArchiveLink is, then look into an ABAP program that can store files, such as PDFs, TXT, JPEG, in the archive content server. Additionally, we will study Function […]

How to Avoid Overlapping Batch Jobs in SAP

Periodic Batch Jobs or Background Jobs have a possibility of overlapping in SAP, especially, when the Batch Job runs in a high frequency like 5 mins or less. If the active Job doesn’t finish in 5 mins next Batch Job will be started in parallel to the currently active Job. Therefore, you could end up […]