An audit trail is a crucial sequential record that meticulously documents the history of events associated with a specific transaction or ledger entry. It is imperative to maintain an audit trail as it is a mandatory regulatory requirement in numerous financial sectors and is unequivocally recognized as a fundamental accounting best practice.

Every relevant change in the configuration or in the business data is tracked via Audit-Trail in DOKA-NG.

The application provides full logging of all those changes, any change is logged in log files under data\log.

By using audit trail, it is possible to identify changes using reports or APIs. This allows the user to select and sort data with several different criteria like changer, change date or changed table.

When storing the changes only in files it is only possible to find changes for single records.

As the log files cannot be used in reports or APIs there is a process to convert the flat files into database entries. This is handled by Manager for Audit Trail.

Audit trail information can be seen in reports under Report Generator Audit Trail.

The INI file used for the audit trail is named slftsk.ini

DOKA allows for the automate to run the job of the audit trail service through SYSMGR. To learn more on SYSMGR, refer to the SYSMGR Article.

Manager for Audit Trail [SLFTSK]

Audit Trail Manager (SLFTSK) - This transaction is a manager for the creation of Audit-Trail database entries in tables SLT and SLF based on existing SLG records.

These entries are created by then central log functions in the System module prefixed by Slg.

To get into the Audit Trail Manager Screen, directly start SLFTSK transaction in the Launch transaction .

The user can start or stop the Audit-Trail Manager via the icons and .  Thereby, SLG records are processed.

Individual SLG records can only be processed by entering the SLG INR on the “Update Selected SLG” field and then pressing the icon . By doing so on the top section of DOKA, the user will receive a message stating the status of the processed SLG record.

The log icon will display the log file where processes and possibly occurring errors while processing records are logged.

Report Generator Audit Trail

The transaction (SLFGEN) is used to create reports about Audit Trail records. The user is able to generate date and time-stamped reports of the history and details around the sequence of modifications for tables and the content of their fields.

Start SLFGEN transaction in the Launch transaction.