AP Payment Batch & DFF data Questions

Question

Hi,
I have few issues faced by one of our clients.
1- After a payment batch is selected and build, In ‘Actions’ the ‘Print Preliminary Register’ and ‘Confirm Payment Batch’ is enabled and processed by clicking ‘OK’.
But due to some error the program was terminated . But output file with ‘0’ bytes is still created.
How to avoid creating a '0' bytes output file whenever error occurs..?
2- . DFF customized to capture ‘Message to Beneficiary ‘ in the payment batch window DFF. This DFF can capture 140 alpha numeric characters. But in output this seems to be truncated and not showing full values.
Would it be because of the font size..? How to extend the data format of this field and what is the maximum we can set..?
3- If the Remittance amount havng more decimal point like 555.555 gets truncated to 555.55 in the out file send to bank.
Why truncated , can we set the rounding option to up/down..?where is it set..?
Can anybody throw some light..?
Thanks,
Jayasree

Answer 1

Use the reference columns i.e REFERENCE_1 to REFERENCE_10 of gl_je_lines table to join the AP, AR tables with the GL tables like the below query.
SELECT gjl.reference_1,
gjl.reference_2,
gjl.reference_4,
gjl.reference_5,
                    gjl.reference_10,
aia.doc_sequence_value,
aia.invoice_type_lookup_code,
aia.description invoice_description,
ada.prepay_distribution_id,
gjl.description,
aca.doc_sequence_value payment_doc_seq_number,
                    ada.invoice_id,
aia.doc_sequence_value
FROM gl.gl_je_headers gjh,
          gl.gl_je_lines gjl,
ap.ap_checks_all aca,
ap.ap_invoices_all aia,
ap.ap_invoice_distributions_all ada
WHERE gjl.je_header_id = gjh.je_header_id
AND aia.invoice_id(+) = gjl.reference_2
AND ada.invoice_id(+) = gjl.reference_2
AND ada.invoice_id(+) = gjl.reference_3
AND aca.check_id(+) = gjl.reference_3;
Thanks,
Lokesh.