SAP Note 21214 - Document archiving SAPF040 termination INVALID_STARTDATE

Symptom:

Document archiving program terminates with exception INVALID_STARTDATE.

Cause and prerequisites

Heavy system load, so that the archiving program is not processed for a longer period of time. As a result, the defined start time for the deletion job is no longer valid.

Solution
Define a longer time interval for the start:
Correction in program SAPF040: ......
WITH X_RESTAR = SPACE.
COMMIT WORK. "Aktu
" EXTIME = SY-UZEIT + 30. <<<<----- OLD
EXTIME = SY-UZEIT + 200. <<<<----- NEW
EXDATE = SY-DATUM.
CALL FUNCTION 'JOB_CLOSE'
EXPORTING
JOBNAME = JOBNAME

....

If the error occurs again, you can raise value 200 up to 500.