FI12 - Swiss/Switzerland Post Bank Account Number

Question

Hi All,
Please will someone help be to overcome the following problem:
My UK client has a subsidiary in Switzerland (ctry code CH) & I'm creating some dummy demo data for a presentation.
After creating a company based in Switzerland, in FI12 I created a house bank with currency EUR. After entering Account ID and currency EUR I cannot enter a dummy bank account number because I do not know the correct format.
Error message 'Hyphen is in incorrect position in post office bank current account no.' AR117 appears.
I checked in NetWeaver- Check country specific checks for 'CH'. There is a check for Post bank account number for maximum value length, without gaps u2013 but there is no mention of  hyphens.
Please will someone tell me where I can check where the hyphen(s) should be in the Swiss post bank account number.
Apologies for posting such a long message and thanks in advance.
Melinda

Answer 1

Hi Melinda,
Please check if you have note 1248767 implemented. Also check the following information:
A Postfinance account number has a structure similar to 12-123456-1,
so there is always at least one separator.
Should the account numbers be presented in the non-post format, which
means a string up to 16 characters, the bank in the bank master must
not have the 'Postbank' sign activated (BNKA-XPGRO). Or the account
number validity check has to be deactivated for Switzerland
(transaction OY17, country CH, 'Further Checks', parameter 'Bank data').
There is not know new requirement regarding the handling of Postfinance
account numbers. Without the separators the validity check would not
be possible.
If you need to write the account numbers in a DME file without the
separators, and do not want to deactivate the validity check,
you can enhance the DME format to filter it out.
Also check note 109589.
kind Regards,
Fernando Evangelista