EBS BAI file check clearing

I am trying to clear check through EBS (BAI format) file upload but the check numbers are coming through in the 16 records in the reference field and not in the 88 records (note to payee). I know we can clear check through check number in 88 records using string config but I don't know what to configure for clearing check if the check number is in 16 records. For e.g.
16,475,656933,,,0013000168/
Where 0013000168 is check number. plus the 2 leading zeros are not there in the check number in SAP. .
Thanks
Ranjit
Edited by: Ron on Feb 1, 2009 1:04 AM

Q1: Did you use F.13 or the fuction in EBS it's self?
We are using EBS download(FF_5) itself to do the auto-clearing
If you have configured the EBS, make sure you took care of the following points as well:
a) In the 'define posting rule', you have entered 4 as 'posting type' (Credit posting key 50 and debit posting key 'blank')
b)In the 'Assign External transaction types to posting rules' you have mapped the external transaction codes (given by your bank) to the correct interpretation alogrithm for checks (we are using 011)
Q2: How did you match with the payment open item ? (for our case, the payment items only have F110 run date and Id plus amt to match with)
If you are creating the check in SAP, then every check payment document has the unique check number assignment as you know. When you download the EBS, it has check number information in the file. SAP then matches this number with the same existing number in the check register. And from the check number it finds and clears the corresponding payment document.
We are downloading here BAI2 format through EBS. In the BAI2 file if you are getting the check number in the record starting with 16, then SAP will be able to find the check number and do the clearing based on the interpretation alogrithm config. But if you getting the check number in the record starting with 88, then you can use 'Define search string for EBS' config to interpret hte check number from note to payee field.
Thanks
Ron

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