Error Differance is too large for Customer clearning

Hi,
When I am trying to clear the customer f-32 i am getting the error as "(F5 263) The difference is too large for clearing".
Excise invoice is created in USD . when i clear the payment in indian currency the erors occurs.
Request you to please help me in resolving the same.
Thanks & Regards,
Neeraj

Hi Vivek,
There are 2533 documents with same assignment and I am trying to clear this documents.
Document currencies are in USD, HKD, GBP, JPY and there is balance in all these currencies.
Local currency is MOP total of which is zero for all this documents.
On Initial screen I am giving MOP which is local currency.
Can you explain me how to clear this through F-03, is there any other way to clear this?

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Initially, you are presented with a window labeled “Today (Now)”. This window represents the state of your Mac as it exists now. +DO NOT+ delete or make changes to files while you see “Today (Now)” at the bottom of the screen. Otherwise, you will be deleting files that exist "today" - not yesterday or last week.
Click on the window just behind “Today (Now)”. This represents the last successful backup and should display the date and time of this backup at the bottom of the screen.
Now, navigate to where the unwanted file resides. If it has been some time since you deleted the file from your Mac, you may need to go farther back in time to see the unwanted file. In that case, use the time scale on the right to choose a date prior to when you actually deleted the file from your Mac.
Highlight the file and click the Actions menu (Gear icon) from the toolbar.
Select “Delete all backups of <this file>”.
*Full Backup After Restore*
If you are running out of disk space sooner than expected it may be that Time Machine is ignoring previous backups and is trying to perform another full backup of your system? This will happen if you have reinstalled the System Software (Mac OS), or replaced your computer with a new one, or hard significant repair work done on your exisitng Mac. Time Machine will perform a new full backup. This is normal. [http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1338]
You have several options if Time Machine is unable to perform the new full backup:
A. Delete the old backups, and let Time Machine begin a fresh.
B. Attach another external hard disk and begin backups there, while keeping this current hard disk. After you are satisfied with the new backup set, you can later reformat the old hard disk and use it for other storage.
C. Ctrl-Click the Time Machine Dock icon and select "Browse Other Time Machine disks...". Then select the old backup set. Navigate to files/folders you don't really need backups of and go up to the Action menu ("Gear" icon) and select "Delete all backups of this file." If you delete enough useless stuff, you may be able to free up enough space for the new backup to take place. However, this method is not assured as it may not free up enough "contiguous space" for the new backup to take place.
*Outgrown Your Backup Disk?*
On the other hand, your computers drive contents may very well have outgrown the capacity of the Time Machine backup disk. It may be time to purchase a larger capacity hard drive for Time Machine backups. Alternatively, you can begin using the Time Machine Preferences exclusion list to prevent Time Machine from backing up unneeded files/folders.
Consider as well: Do you really need ALL that data on your primary hard disk? It sounds like you might need to Archive to a different hard disk anything that's is not of immediate importance. You see, Time Machine is not designed for archiving purposes, just as a backup of your local drive(s). In the event of disaster, it can get your system back to its' current state without having to reinstall everything. But if you need LONG TERM storage, then you need another drive that is removed from your normal everyday working environment.
This KB article discusses this scenario with some suggestions including Archiving the old backups and starting fresh [http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.5/en/15137.html]
Let us know if this clarifies things.
Cheers!

EBS - Error F5 263 (Diff is too large for clearing)

Helli Experts,
We are implementing SAP Electronic bank statement functionality. One of the requirements of the business is that of automatic clearing of customer open items after import of MT940.
We are using standard interpretation algorithm 001, but made use of an enhancement to clear the open items based on age of the open items rather than any reference given in Note to Payee details. That means if a customer has 4 overdue open items and paid the amount referring to the 3rd open item, system should rather clear the 1st open item which is overdue for more number of days than the 3rd open item. This has been made possible by activating the check box "Distribute by age" in FEBCL table through the standard enhancement option given by SAP.
As an extension of this requirement, if the customer pays off in lumpsum (in single payment) for the combination of first three open items, then the system should clear off those three open items leaving the fourth one as the open item. For instance first open item has the amount of $ 1000, 2nd one has $2000, 3rd one has $3000 and 4th one has $4000. Now if the customer pays $6000, system should clear the 1st, 2nd and 3rd open items automatically after loading the bank statement containing this payment of $6000. So, only the 4th one will be in open item status.
But when I load the bank statement, system is giving me an error message F5 263 (the difference is too large for clearing) in posting area 2. Posting area 1 is fine and document is successfully posted. Issue is there only in posting area 2. I believe system should be able to find the first three open items for the amount of $6000 based on the indicator of "Distribute by age". But this is not happening. If I try to reprocess the statement through FEBAN after I got this error message, then system is able to find the first three open items and then able to clear off. But wondering why it is not happening in transaction FF.5 automatically.
So, could you kindly let me know if I am missing something or is it a limiation in SAP that this scenario is not possible to achieve through EBS.
Thanks in advance.
Sridhar

Hi Experts,
Using standard BAdI the requirements could be solved. Thanks.
Regards,
Sridhar

Replicat error: ORA-12899: value too large for column ...

Hi,
In our system Source and Target are on the same physical server and in the same Oracle instance. Just different schemes.
Tables on the target were created as 'create table ... as select * from ... source_table', so they have a similar structure. Table names are also similar.
I started replicat, it worked fine for several hours, but when I inserted Chinese symbols into the source table I got an error:
WARNING OGG-00869 Oracle GoldenGate Delivery for Oracle, OGGEX1.prm: OCI Error ORA-12899: value too large for column "MY_TARGET_SCHEMA"."TABLE1"."*FIRSTNAME*" (actual: 93, maximum: 40) (status = 12899), SQL <INSERT INTO "MY_TARGET_SCHEMA"."TABLE1" ("USERID","USERNAME","FIRSTNAME","LASTNAME",....>.
FIRSTNAME is Varchar2(40 char) field.
I suppose the problem probably is our database is running with NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS='CHAR'
I've double checked tables structure on the target - it's identical with the source.
I also tried to manually insert this record into the target table using 'insert into ... select * from ... ' statement - it works. The problem seems to be in the replicat.
How to fix this error?
Thanks in advance!
Oracle GoldenGate version: 11.1.1.1
Oracle Database version: 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
NLS_LANG: AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS='CHAR'
Edited by: DeniK on Jun 20, 2012 11:49 PM
Edited by: DeniK on Jun 23, 2012 12:05 PM
Edited by: DeniK on Jun 25, 2012 1:55 PM

I've created the definition files and compared them. They are absolutely identical, apart from source and target schema names:
Source definition file:
Definition for table MY_SOURCE_SCHEMA.TABLE1
Record length: 1632
Syskey: 0
Columns: 30
USERID 134 11 0 0 0 1 0 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
USERNAME 64 80 12 0 0 1 0 80 80 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
FIRSTNAME 64 160 98 0 0 1 0 160 160 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
LASTNAME 64 160 264 0 0 1 0 160 160 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
PASSWORD 64 160 430 0 0 1 0 160 160 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
TITLE 64 160 596 0 0 1 0 160 160 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Target definition file:
Definition for table MY_TAEGET_SCHEMA.TABLE1
Record length: 1632
Syskey: 0
Columns: 30
USERID 134 11 0 0 0 1 0 8 8 8 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
USERNAME 64 80 12 0 0 1 0 80 80 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
FIRSTNAME 64 160 98 0 0 1 0 160 160 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
LASTNAME 64 160 264 0 0 1 0 160 160 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
PASSWORD 64 160 430 0 0 1 0 160 160 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
TITLE 64 160 596 0 0 1 0 160 160 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
Edited by: DeniK on Jun 25, 2012 1:56 PM
Edited by: DeniK on Jun 25, 2012 1:57 PM

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