Symptom
Payment medium files downloaded from the app 'Manage Payment Media' are not encrypted and can be changed manually by user.
Environment
SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition
Reproducing the Issue
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Go to the app Manage Payment Media.
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Enter Run date and Run Identification.
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Click on GO.
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Select the record and click on Download button.
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Open the downloaded TXT file.
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Make manual changes to the file.
Resolution
SAP doesn't support the encryption of the downloaded payment medium file in SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. Instead we would recommend you to consider to use the SAP Multi Bank Connectivity(MBC). This will give you a secure and automatic way to connect to your bank for payment files and bank statements and also offers monitoring capabilities. Files exchanged with MBC are encrypted and signed.
Multi-Bank Connectivity is packaged in Scope Item 16R as standard scope. All the customers get MBC content by default, but the connection set-up needs additional license from application perspective. The monitoring is only available in combination with Advanced Cash Operations (J78) which is a licensed Scope Item.
Please refer to the scope items 16R and J78 in the best practices explorer for more information.
Bank Integration with SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity (16R): https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/browse/scopeitems/16R
Advanced Cash Operations (J78): https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/browse/scopeitems/J78
See Also
Bank Integration with SAP Multi-Bank Connectivity (16R): https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/browse/scopeitems/16R
Advanced Cash Operations (J78): https://rapid.sap.com/bp/#/browse/scopeitems/J78
Keywords
F1868, 16R, J78, MBC, Multi Bank Connectivity, Advance Cash Operations, FSN, Manage Automatic Payments, Payment Medium File, Payment Media, Payment Advice, text file, TXT, XML , KBA , FI-AP-AP-B1 , Payment transfer (w/o DE, US) , FI-FIO-AP , Fiori UI for Accounts Payable , FIN-FSCM-BNK , Direct Bank Communication , How To