SAP Note 24438 - Are processed sessions physically traceable?

Symptom:

A batch input session ran successfully. Is there an option, to display it afterwards?

Cause and prerequisites

You want to be able to reproduce what was done later on.

Solution

Background input sessions are physically stored in the tables APQD and APQI.
After processing, they are only deleted automatically if

• data transfer was successful and

• the flag "KEEP" was not set in the function module BDC_OPEN_GROUP when creating the session.
  

If this is not the case, the session must be deleted manually.

You can see that a session was deleted by choosing "SM35 -> Overview -> Session". If it was deleted, it is no longer listed. There is then no way to "retrieve" it.

The background input logs are in the file /usr/sap//SYS/global/BI (Unix)
\\\sapmnt\\sys\global\BI (NT)
and can be displayed with "SM35 -> Log". Logs are never deleted automatically, but are retained until they are deleted manually. The procedure is described in note 18307.

Old sessions and protocols can be deleted by running RSBCDREO. Note that this report is client specific. For details see Note 18307.

Additional key words

BDC_OPEN_GROUP