Electronic Bank Statement Search Strings Customer Item Clearing

I have configured EBS and I am trying to clear open items from customer accounts using Search Strings.
I have mapped the customer account on the bank statement to the SAP customer account. For example, Victor Osagie is mapped to account 1400036.
When I process transactions with exactly the same note to payee as above, open items in the customer account clear. However, when the note to payee field changes for example to Victor Osagie 110000000. The customer is recognised but the item is not cleared from the customer account.
The statement format is BAI and we are using the BAI processor.
How can I manipulate the search strings to allow the clearing of items like this?
Victor

Problem solved. Applied note 1085596
Anil

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Jean Weyrich

Thks Ramesh for the hint but this did not change, although I changed this table so that it looks for BELNR only for all account type D.
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Anybody have complete configuration steps for Electronic Bank statement. If you have plse send me .
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1. Create House Bank and Account ID (FI12)
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Financial Accounting > Bank Accounting (FI-BL) > Electronic Bank Statement >
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