AR Archive and Purging

There are 2 Types of Purging in Oracle Receivables:
1) Autoinvoice Interface Purge
2) Transaction Data Archive & Purge

Autoinvoice Interface Purge1) Login to corresponding AR Purge User responsibility

2) Run ‘Autoinvoice Purge Program’ from SRS window

3) The program deletes the data from following tables for specific operating unit attached to the responsibility
RA_INTERFACE_DISTRIBUTIONS_ALL
RA_INTERFACE_SALESCREDITS_ALL
RA_INTERFACE_LINES_ALL
RA_INTERFACE_ERRORS_ALL

Transaction Data Archive & Purge
1) Login to corresponding AR Archive & Purge User responsibility

2) Run ‘Call New Archive and Purge’ program from SRS window which will eventually calls ‘New Archive and Purge’ program

3) This program archives the data in tables- AR_ARCHIVE_HEADER & AR_ARCHIVE_DETAIL and deletes transaction data from following base tables:
AR_ACTION_NOTIFICATIONS
AR_ADJUSTMENTS
AR_BATCHES
AR_CALL_ACTIONS
AR_CASH_BASIS_DISTRIBUTIONS
AR_CASH_RECEIPTS
AR_CASH_RECEIPT_HISTORY
AR_CORRESPONDENCE_PAY_SCHED
AR_CUSTOMER_CALL_TOPICS
AR_MISC_CASH_DISTRIBUTIONS
AR_NOTES
AR_PAYMENT_SCHEDULES
AR_RATE_ADJUSTMENTS
AR_RECEIVABLE_APPLICATIONS
RA_BATCHES
RA_CUSTOMER_TRX
RA_CUSTOMER_TRX_LINES
RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_GL_DIST
RA_CUST_TRX_LINE_SALESREPS
AR_CORRESPONDENCES
AR_DISTRIBUTIONS
4) If in case, Archive & Purge program fails, you can submit ‘Archive-Restart’ program from SRS window. It can be used to save the system from having to revalidate all purge candidates, if Archive & Purge has completed the selection and validation phase, then fails during the archive phase. Archive-Restart clears the Archive Header and Detail tables and submits the archive report. When submitting the Archive-Restart program you must provide the following parameters: Archive Level, Summary Report Only, Number of Workers, Commit Size, and Archive Id

5) Run ‘Archive to File’ program from SRS window to move your archive data to a file in the directory with the file name . Also ensure that you move your archive output from the AR_TOP/out directory to an appropriate storage area. Otherwise, it will be deleted when your system administrator clears the output directories.

6) Once archive data has been stored the archive tables must be cleared before the next purge run. To clear the archive tables use the TRUNCATE command in SQL with the following tables:
AR_ARCHIVE_HEADER
AR_ARCHIVE_DETAIL
7) The following tables will be cleared automatically the next time you run the Archive/Purge programs.
AR_PURGE_TRX_AUX
AR_PURGE_REC_AUX
AR_ARCHIVE_PURGE_LOG
AR_ARCHIVE_PURGE_INTERIM
AR_PURGE_OE_EXCEPTIONS
8) After you purge your database, you should contact your Database Administrator (DBA), so that he can export and import the tables and indexes from which you purged data. By recreating these objects, you can reduce the memory each object occupies in your tablespace and increase the performance of your system.