FBRA versus FB08

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm facing an issue related to the combinated use of transaction FB08 and FBRA. Actually I have to modify a custom program that is used for resetting and reversing payment document. The program asd been structured in a way in which it first uses transaction FBRA for resetting the payment and then it call, separately, transaction FB08 for reversing it.

Since transaction FBRA is capable of handling both operations, reset and reverse, I would like to modify the program in order to use just this one transaction.

I would like to know if there maybe isseus related to this modification: is the revesal performed through FBRA more or less effective compared to the one performed trhough FB08? Is FBRA able to reverse only certain documents compared to FB08?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Davide

[former_member581986 · Accepted solution]

Hi Davide,

from a reversal point of view, there is no difference between FBRA (if you choose the reversal option) and FB08. In fact, FBRA calls FB08 internally. The difference is simply the original purpose for FBRA, resetting a previous clearing. As a result, some documents cannot be reversed from FBRA (because they are not clearing documents, but pure JEs).

On the other hand, FB08 cannot be used if this is a clearing document.

The answer to your question depends on the purpose of this report: if this is to reverse some clearing documents AND reverse them, then you can go for the modification. We have had similar Z reports running with the following logic: Selection screen the same as for F.80 (mass reversal), if the document was a clearing doc, then call FBRA (with reversal), if not, just reverse as usual.

However, when doing this modification, you have to bear in mind that for some clearing documents, FBRA will not offer the option to just reset the clearing without reversing the clearing document in the same step. This is the case for clearings where some automatic differences (for instance, realizd FX differences) were posted. This is logical: if you would only reset the clearing, without reversing, why that realized FX diff is posted?? So SAP does not alow you to do so, either you leave it as it is (cleared, FX diff posted), or you reset the clearing AND reverse it immediately. Check this out if you are working with batch input and/or call transaction.

Hope that helps, points welcome

Csaba

[Former Member]

FBRA is used for reversing the cleared items, basically your open item managed accounts if they are cleared then are reset to open and then reverse.

FB08 is reversing the document irrespective of what it is.

FBRa has a limited capability

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