C-LANG Statements › ARCDATE Statement—Specify the SAP Archive Link Archiving Date

ARCDATE Statement—Specify the SAP Archive Link Archiving Date

The ARCDATE statement specifies the SAP archive link archiving date.

Supported Job Types

This statement is optional for the following job types:

• SAP Batch Input Session
• SAP Data Archiving
• SAP R/3

Syntax

This statement has the following format:

ARCDATE date

date

Specifies the archive link archiving date. The format is yyyymmdd.

Limits: Up to eight numeric digits

Example: 20080702

Notes:

• Use the ARCDATE statement before the first ABAPNAME statement to set the default value for subsequent steps.
• Use the ARCDATE statement within the boundaries of the step definition (between two ABAPNAME statements or between an ABAPNAME statement and the end of the job definition) to define the value for that step.

Example: Specify the Archive Link Archiving Date

This example specifies April 8, 2004 as the archive link archiving date for the RSPARAM ABAP:

SAPJOBNAME SAPTEST
AGENT SAPHTAGENT
ABAPNAME RSPARAM
   ARCDATE 20040408
   ARCMODE ARCHIVE
   ARCDOCTYPE ARCHIVE
   ARCOBJTYPE ARCHIVE
   ARCINFO inf
   ARCCLIENT 800