Deleting work items in production

[Michael Pokraka]

Hi Cindy, 

It is not only the risk that you need to consider, this may have serious audit
implications.

Perhaps you can tell us why this is an 'immediate requirement'? 

Cheers
Mike


--- Qiru w <qiruw at YAHOO.COM> wrote:
> 
> Hi, all,
> 
> 
> 
>    We have an issue regarding deletion of unwanted work items in production
> system. According to SAP's recommendation, archive is the best approach.
> However, the problem is that we are not planning to implement archiving
> functionality in the near future, but production has this immediate
> requirement. 
> 
>    Alternatively, SAP provide two reports SWWWIDE and SWWHIDE to delete work
> item in development/testing environment, which will delete work items
> permanently and directly. However, SAP emphasizes on the risk of using these
> reports and only suggests using it in non-production system.
> 
> 
> 
>    Can these two reports act as practical solution to eliminate work items in
> production? 
> 
>    Does anyone actually use this in production? 
> 
>    How to use it up to make it secure and reduce the risk of mistakenly using
> the program? I am planning to use a dummy user who will get those work items
> need to be deleted and set the running variant and authorization to this user
> only.
> 
> 
> 
>    Any suggestion is appreciated.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
> Cindy
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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