Work Item Type Container Linkage Element (C)

[Quenzer, Kenneth D]

The type 'C' workitems are created when you create IDocs as a way to link
the IDoc to the business document and I don't think they are used very much.
I believe they are even being phased out in 4.6c (we recently converted to
4.6c and are no longer getting type 'C' workitems).  From my point of view
it is safe to delete them using rswwwide.  I have deleted several hundred
thousand out of our system.  You should work with your database
administrator to make sure that the tables are reorganized after deleting a
large number of records.
 
Regards,
Kenny Quenzer
 
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dart, Jocelyn [SMTP:jocelyn.dart at sap.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 7:09 PM
> To:   SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Work Item Type Container Linkage Element (C)
>
> Hi Robin,
> Container linkage elements come from ALE/EDI.
> I remember that much but haven't had much to do with them.
> Hope that helps.
> Regards,
>         Jocelyn Dart
> Consultant (EBP, BBP, Ecommerce, Internet Transaction Server, Workflow)
> SAP Australia
> Email jocelyn.dart at sap.com <mailto:jocelyn.dart at sap.com>
> Tel: +61 412 390 267
> Fax: +61 2 9935 4880
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robin Sahasranam [mailto:Rsahasranam at worldbank.org]
> Sent: Friday, 27 July 2001 6:26 AM
> To: SAP-WUG at MITVMA.MIT.EDU
> Subject: Work Item Type Container Linkage Element (C)
>
>
> I have been archiving and deleting our workflow tables. However, we still
> have a
> large number (900,000) of Container Linkage Element
> (SWWWIHEAD-WI_TYPE='C')
> workitems in READY status. There are no other workitem types (F, W, B etc)
> in
> READY status in the creation date range. The type 'C' workitems seem to
> remain
> in READY status and never get changed to CANCELLED or COMPLETED, and thus
> don't
> get archived/deleted. The type 'C' workitems don't have a task id
> (WI_RH_TASK)
> and do not have a parent (WI_CHCKWI), so I can't figure out what they are
> linked
> to.
>
> Can you explain what these type C workitems are? Why do they remain in
> READY
> status? Is it safe to delete them using the deletion report RSWWIDE, even
> though
> they are in READY status?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for the generosity of your time and willingness to help.
>
> Robin Sahasranam