Use this report to delete messages from SAP Application Interface Framework interfaces.
SAP Application Interface Framework messages are archived by default, but archiving is not always necessary for some interfaces or in some special cases for any interfaces. When it’s not necessary to archive them, the messages of an interface can be deleted instead using this report.
CAUTION: Delete messages cannot be restored.
CAUTION: The message deletion does not consider ILM (Information Lifecycle Management).
Prerequisites
Only messages of interfaces explicitly flagged for deletion can be deleted by the report.
There are two views you can use to flag an interface for deletion. View /AIF/V_FINF_DEL (transaction /AIF/CUST: SAP Application Interface Framework → Interface Development → Additional Interface Properties → Configure Message Deletion of Interfaces (Default)) contains the default settings as defined by development. For interfaces delivered by SAP, the content of view /AIF/V_FINF_DEL is shipped with the interface using the standard content delivery. Use view /AIF/V_FINF_DELC (see transaction /AIF/CUST: SAP Application Interface Framework → System Configuration → Custom Extensions → Configure Message Deletion for Interfaces) to overwrite default settings.
Features
This report removes all data of a message including any application log and change log entries for the message.
However, data outside of SAP Application Interface Framework is out of scope. For example, in case of an IDoc interface, the IDoc data records cannot be deleted by this report, as it’s in the scope of the ALE layer.
In a productive system, only messages with a final status (S, W, C) can be deleted.
In a cloud system, the report is triggered via a technical job that runs once per day.
Selection
You can select a subset by setting specific statuses.
Output
The output is a log of the deletion activities.
