Install and configure the

B2B Data Exchange

accelerator in Data Archive. The accelerator accesses the

B2B Data Exchange

repository and

retrieves events

based on the archive project settings that you define in Data Archive. For installation instructions, see the

B2B Data Exchange

Installation and Configuration Guide

.

Determine the locations of the source and target database. You must store the production database and history database on the same type of database. For example, you cannot archive events from an Oracle database to a Microsoft SQL Server database.

Configure the connections to the source and target archive locations. Define general connection properties and database-specific properties based on the archive method that you want to use. You configure the source and target connection properties to archive documents that are passed by reference to the

B2B Data Exchange

document store.

Set up user roles and configure secured access. Create access roles and assign security groups to the source

and target

archive locations to determine which users can run archive jobs

and access archived events

in Data Archive. You must create an access role even for a single user.

You do not need to create a security group for the target connection.

Configure seamless access to the history database. For short-term archiving, create a seamless access layer to link the production database and the history database to view the archived events in the Operation Console.

Create the file archive folder. For long-term archiving, create the file archive user, and run a standalone archive job to create the file archive folder.

Create and publish the archive project. In the archive project, you define the parameters according to which you want the archive job to

archive

the events

and documents

from the source

archive

location. For example, you can define to

archive

events of a specific

type, status, or partner

. Although you can only

archive

whole event hierarchies, some archive parameters only apply to the root event in the hierarchy.

Schedule and run the archive job. The archive job uses the parameters from the archive job that you create and

moves

the events and documents from the source location

to the target location

. You can schedule a single immediate job or a recurring job.

Each archive scenario requires additional jobs that you run after the main archive job.

View the archived events and documents. For short-term archiving, use the

Archived Events

page of the Operation Console to view events that you archive to the history database. For long term archiving, use the Data Discovery portal in Data Archive to browse and search for events that you archive to the file archive.

Periodically, rebuild the indexes of the

B2B Data Exchange

repository schema. You can use the

ALTER INDEX <index name> REBUILD ONLINE

syntax.