IBARC SAP (IB: Archiving Administration Information) Structure details

Dictionary Type: Structure
Description: IB: Archiving Administration Information




ABAP Code to SELECT data from IBARC
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Structure field list including key, data, relationships and ABAP select examples

IBARC is a standard SAP Structure so does not store data like a database table does. It can be used to define the fields of other actual tables or to process "IB: Archiving Administration Information" Information within sap ABAP programs.

This is done by declaring abap internal tables, work areas or database tables based on this Structure. These can then be used to store and process the required data appropriately.

i.e. DATA: wa_IBARC TYPE IBARC.

The IBARC table consists of various fields, each holding specific information or linking keys about IB: Archiving Administration Information data available in SAP. These include IBASE (IBase: Number of the Installed Base/IBase), INSTANCE (IB: Component (instance)), VALID (IBase: Valid From), INTTYP (IB: Internal type of a referencing object).. See below for full list along with technical details, documentation, text table, check tables, foreign key relationships, conversion routines, relevant tcodes and example ABAP select code etc. .

Delivery Class:
Display/Maintenance via tcode SM30: Display/Maintenance Allowed but with Restrictions
SAP enhancement categories: Not classified


SAP IBARC structure fields - Full list of fields found in SAP data dictionary

Field Description Data Element Data Type length (Dec) Check table Conversion Routine Domain Name MemoryID SHLP
MANDTClient MANDTCLNT3Assigned to domainMANDT
IBASEIBase: Number of the Installed Base/IBase IB_IBASENUMC18ALPHAIB_INSTANCEIIBIBIBM
INSTANCEIB: Component (instance) IB_INSTANCENUMC18ALPHAIB_INSTANCEIBC
VALIDIBase: Valid From IB_VALFRDEC15TSTPSBCOS_TSTMP
INTTYPIB: Internal type of a referencing object IBINTTYPNUMC4NUM4
OBJKEYIB: Key of a Referencing Object IBOBJKEYCHAR50CHAR50
DELETE_FLAGYes/No (X/ ) OAXCHAR1X

Key field Non-key field



How do I retrieve data from SAP structure IBARC using ABAP code?

As IBARC is a database structure and not a table it does not store any data in the SAP data dictionary. The ABAP SELECT statement is therefore not appropriate and can not be performed on IBARC as there is no data to select.

How to access SAP table IBARC

Within an ECC or HANA version of SAP you can also view further information about IBARC and the data within it using relevant transactions such as

SE11 (ABAP Dictionary Maintenance)
SM30 (Maintain Table Data)
SE80 (Object Navigator)
SE16 (Data Browser).


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