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Purpose

In end-of-day processing you can use one of the following:

You can use the job chain control to define the processing steps to be run automatically.

Prerequisites

You need to define the processing sequence that you require for the reports in the job chain, by choosing   Periodic Tasks   Specify Sequence of Mass Processing   in the Implementation Guide (IMG). To use your own reports, choose   Periodic Tasks   Include Customer Reports for Mass Processing   in the Implementation Guide (IMG).

Including your own reports for mass processing:

This lists all the reports that can be selected in a chain. You can specify both reports supplied by SAP as well as your own. Note that inconsistencies can arise due to the Continue column, as there can be dependencies between the reports. It is recommended that you only use the column for reports you have written.

Specifying the sequence of mass processing:

You can use this transaction to define any chains that you require. First you assign the chain ID and the corresponding chain name, then you assign the corresponding reports.

You can include the following reports in mass processing (the reports for standing orders and fixed-term deposit accounts only apply to banks):

Job name

Description

RFBKPDT2

Set date for payment transactions

RFBKPDT4

Set date for payment transactions in test

RFBKKC20

Cash concentration

RFBKCONC

Account balancing

RFBKBSST

Bank statements

RFBKBANKSTATDUPL

Creation of bank statement duplicates

RFBKBALNOT

Balance notifications

RFBKCHACCUR

Account changeover

RFBKCLEB

Set posting date for balancing

RFBKSOCR (obsolete from EA-FINSERV 200)

Standing order

RFBKSOCR (new from EA-FINSERV 200)

Parallelized standing order

RFBKACCL

Account closure

RFBKCONA

Interest accrual/deferral

RFBKGL_VA_CALC_POST

Individual value adjustment

RFBKGL01

General ledger transfer

RFBKGLBSPREP

Balance sheet preparation

RFBKTMP1

Planned item

RFBKTMP1_PO

Forward order

RFBKTTERMCONTROL (changed for EA-FINSERV 500)

Fix fixed-term deposit accounts

RFBKTTTERMMATURE (new for EA-FINSERV 500)

Call fixed-term deposit accounts

RFBKTDEPOSITCOLLECTION

Collection of fixed-term deposit accounts

RFBKTTERMPRENOTICE

Prenotification of maturity-term deposit accounts

The RFBKCHAINSTART report is provided to enable you to start a chain.

You need to enter a standard variant in these reports. You can also provide parameters and selection options of variants using variables. On this subject, read the following documentation: Maintenance of Selection Variables in Table TVARV

Process Flow

  1. The IMG activity Include Customer Reports for Mass Processing enables you to check whether all the reports exist. Since only the jobs listed here are available in IMG activity Specify Sequence of Mass Processing, you can also control which jobs you want to include in your job processing chains.

  2. Define which reports are to run in a chain.

  3. Define the variants belonging to the reports. This means that you need to maintain the parameters and selection options in the TVARV table.

  4. Use the IMG activity Specify Sequence of Mass Processing to define the chain, its reports, and the corresponding variants.

  5. Use the RFBKCHAINSTART report to schedule a job.

    Note Note

    Note:

    Use the RFBKPDT4 report for testing and the RFBKDT2 report for production. The RFBKPDT2 report has a check that prevents you setting the payment transaction date to a date in the future.

    You can use the RFBCHAINSTART report to start the chain in online operation and in batch mode. For online operation, choose   Periodic Tasks   End-of-Day Processing   Start   in the application.

    For an example of how a job chain can be defined, see Proposal: Process Flow of End-of-Day Processing .

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Result

End-of-day processing is triggered and carried out automatically.

Note Note

Tip:

To improve performance, you can use parallel processing in the system. You set up parallel processing in the Implementation Guide (IMG) by choosing   Periodic Tasks   Parallel Processing.   You can set up the number of jobs to be processed in each application type and in each target system. This distribution depends on the number of target systems and the available batch processes. Do not distribute more jobs than there are batch processes available.

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