3644165 - What is the impact of increasing the retention period for PI ABAP messages?

• You are using Process Integration (PI) or Process Orchestration (PO) as a central Integration Server (Dual Stack or Dual Usage) or a local Integration Engine in an ABAP application system which sends/receives messages.
• The PI System Administrator is planning to increase the message retention period from 1 (one) day to x days as per Defining Interfaces and Retention Periods for Archiving | SAP Help Portal.
• You would like to know the potential impact of this on your system. 

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