Extending DME Transfer Files According to Spanish Banking Control Council to Support NonEuro Payments

Applies to:
SAP ECC 6.0, SAP_APPL 604, FI-AP-AP-PT Payment Transactions, Financial Accounting Spain.

Summary
The SAP standard supports the creation of DME (Data Medium Exchange) files for Spanish transfers according to the specification issued by the Association of Spanish banks (A.E.B.). However this specification regards payments in Euro only. In real life payments are often done in a different currency. In these cases the DME files created by the standard programs are not usable. This article describes which coding and customizing changes to do in order to create DME files with the correct format for non Euro payments. Authors: Rainer Zilch

Company: SAP Deutschland AG & Co. KG Created on: 15 December 2010

Author Bio
Rainer Zilch is consultant for Enterprise Application Integration. He has been working for SAP since more than 10 years. After having worked with the classical integration technologies like RFC, IDoc, ALE and Business Connector, he acts now mainly as PI Coach and Integration Architect.

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Table of Contents
Creation of DME (Data Medium Exchange) Files in the Standard ................................................................. 3 Coding Changes ............................................................................................................................................. 3 Customizing Changes ..................................................................................................................................... 5 Checking the results ....................................................................................... Error! Bookmark not defined.

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Creation of DME (Data Medium Exchange) Files in the Standard

In the standard the program RFFOES_T is used to create data medium exchange (DME) files for Spanish transfers and/or bank checks. It creates files that correspond to Norm 34-1 of the Spanish Banking Control Council, 'Consejo Superior Bancario' ('rdenes en soporte magntico para emisin de transferencias y cheques'). However there are two issues when payments are done in a currency other than Euro. 1. The currency information is missing in the DME files created. The currency field is optional, but if not given, the currency is always considered to be Euro. 2. The format of the amounts is not correct According to the specification the total amount needs to have 2 decimals without any punctuation. However the standard shifts the amounts by two digits Coding Changes The coding sections that cause the issues mentioned above are in the program RFFORIE3 which is included in RFFOES_T. In order to fix the issues without a modification, you copy both programs to a suitable namespace, e.g. RFFOES_T to ZRFFOES_T and RFFORIE3 to ZRFFORIE3. In ZRFFORIE3 you need to do the following changes: 1. In FORM REG_ABRD_LINE_ITEM_FUELLEN After DTAXESREG_2_ABRD-F3 = REGUH-ZBNKS. the following coding needs to be inserted: if REGUH-WAERS ne 'EUR'. DTAXESREG_2_ABRD-F4 = REGUH-WAERS. ENDIF. 2. In FORM REG_SPL_LINE_ITEM_FUELLEN After DTAXESREG_2_SPL-F3 = REGUH-ZBNKS. the following coding needs to be inserted: if REGUH-WAERS ne 'EUR'. DTAXESREG_2_SPL-F4 = REGUH-WAERS. ENDIF. 3. There are 7 spots where the amount is shifted. The structure is always like this: IF EURO IS INITIAL. SHIFT DTAXESREG_1-F1 BY 2 PLACES LEFT CIRCULAR. ENDIF. Only the name of the structure is slightly different. Instead of DTAXESREG_1 it is called e.g. DTAXESTOT, DTAXESTOT_O or similar in the other sections. You best search for BY 2 PLACES LEFT CIRCULAR to find these sections. All these sections must be commented out to avoid that the amount gets shifted.

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Having done that, you need to do one change in ZRFFOES_T. Replace INCLUDE RFFORIE3. by INCLUDE ZRFFORIE3. to make the program execute your form routines instead of the standard ones.

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Customizing Changes
Finally you need to change the customizing to make the system use ZRFFOES_T instead of the standard program for creating the DME files. Execute transaction /spro, click on SAP Reference IMG and go to Financial Accounting (New) > Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable > Business Transactions > Outgoing Payments > Automatic Outgoing Payments > Payment Media > Make Setting for Classic Payment Medium Programs > Assign Payment Medium Program for Payment Method in Country

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There you can assign the program that is used for each Payment Method. The standard Payment Method for the DME file creation for Spain is T, however you may have defined a different one. Enter ZRFFOES_T in column Program in the relevant line.

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Checking the results

After performing a payment run you can check the status of the Payment Transaction in transaction /f110. On tab Printout/data medium you can see which program with which variant has been executed to generate the DME file.

When ZRFFOES_T has been used, the DME files have the correct format for the amounts and the currency information filled. See example below for a DME file for a payment in British Pounds (GBP).

DME file created with RFFOES_T

DME file created with ZRFFOES_T

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