Deletion of old messages in XI fails

[Former Member]

Hello XI-perts,

after setting up Archiving & Deletion on our development XI, I face this issue:

old messages are neither archived nor deleted, even though they are not in the retention time - report RSXMB_SHOW_REORG_STATUS shows 179,647 messages that can be deleted. Most of these have messge status 014 - System Error, manual restart possible.

I can not cancel these with report RSXMB_CANCEL_MESSAGES or in SXMB_MONI, also resending is not an option.

How do I get rid of these messages?

Best regards,

Andreas

[manish_bhalla2 · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Asynchronous messages that are in an Error status need to be cancelled before they can be archived and/or deleted.

This can be done by selecting the message(s) in the XML monitor (Tcode SXI_MONITOR), menu EDIT->Cancel Message with Errors.

Refer to the following :

HowTo Guide: https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/402fae48-0601-0010-3088-85c46a23...

SAP Notes: 872388, 820149, 712253

SAP Help Links:

Archiving and Deleting: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/0e/80553b4d53273de10000000a114084/frameset.htm

Defining Interfaces & Retention Periods for Archiving: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/41/b715015ffc11d5b3ea0050da403d6a/frameset.htm

Regards

Manish

[Former Member]

Hi,

neither restarting nor cancelling works, however arch&del itself for new messages works - these are old messages from before arch&del was configured. Most of them are in message status 14, IE action DEL, reorg status INI. It is not possible to restart or to cancel, in XSMB_MONI they come up as processed successfully (checkered flag), but with an error on the outbound side.

Best regards,

Andreas