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3123906 - CA 005 Domestic Payment: Outbound File Is Empty

Symptom

The payment file created based in payment format for Canada CA 005 Domestic Payment is empty.

Environment

SAP Business ByDesign

Reproducing the Issue

  1. Go to the Liquidity Management work center.
  2. Go to the Outbound Files view.
  3. Open the respective file ID with status In File Creation.
  4. Click View All.
  5. Open the file which has file size of 0 Bytes.
  6. The file is empty.

Cause

The system has aborted the file creation in the backend with a system crash, which happened due to at least one of the reasons below:

  1. An alphanumeric value has been maintained for routing number of Company Bank. In this case, routing number is usually the National Bank Code (NBC).
  2. An alphanumeric value has been maintained for routing number of Payee's Bank. In this case, routing number is usually the National Bank Code (NBC).

Resolution

For payment format CA 005 Domestic Payment, the routing number (NBC) should be a numeric value.

Once you change the required National Bank Code(s) to a numeric value you should be able to create a payment file successfully.

See Also

2716578 - You create an Outbound file but the file is empty

Keywords

CA 005 Domestic Payment; NBC; national bank code; payment file , KBA , AP-PAY-GLO , Cross-Country Extensions , How To

Product

SAP Business ByDesign all versions