Reformatting a file

[Former Member]

To reformat the file created from the transaction F111 (Account Payables) i mean a file generated after DME in sap into a specific format to satisfy a banks criteria.and ftp it to the bank . Please let me know what is the good approach XI or ABAP? right now i am thinking ABAP . please let me know if it can be done easily xi.

Any help is appreciated

pavan

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

HI,

ABAP is the good approach to reformat.

Regards

Chilla

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

thanks for the replies. I have to convert the file into NACHA format. for ACH transactions. are there any standard programs to reformat the DME generated files to NACHA format, please let me know. I was thinking to write a program to read the file and then reformat it into the required format and then use some shell scripts to ftp the file to bank. Please suggest if there is an easier way where i can reduce the programming work.

thanks for the quick replies appreciate it.

pavan

[MichalKrawczyk]

hi,

you can combine those two approaches

format the file in ABAP (I assume you use one of the standard sap programs)

and then you can transfet the file via XI (file to ftp for example)

Regards,

michal

[henrique_pinto]

XI will provide you monitoring power over the ftp connection (check availability, SLA, etc).

If you have a standard functionality to generate the file in the interface expected by the bank, do as Michal said.

But if it's not standard and/or it requires constant maintenance/update effort, maintain it as a mapping program in XI's Integration Repository and just map your standard RFC/IDOC into the format expected by the bank.

Regards,

Henrique.