FPMA auto Clearing is not working.

Question

Hi All,
FPMA auto Clearing is not working.
Scenario
Contract account is having open invoices and also open credit items. The total open invoice amount is equal to the total open credit items. So the contract account balance is ZERO.But the open credit items and open invoices are not having a clearing document because its not cleared. I have executed FPMA transaction with proper parameters but auto clearing is not happend.
Questions are:
1) what would be the reason behind not functioning the auto clearing
2) Job log of the FPMA program is showing exceptions ( some times with execption 6 and some times with 10,etc) . is there any table to check exceptions.
3) what is the diff between FPL9 ( account maintenance ) and FPMA auto clearing.
Regards,
Will

Answer 1

Hi,
I have put together all the possible scenarios in my previous post against the failure of auto clearing.
Now to elaborate my point (i)(ii)-
(a) There is an object called clearing lock which you will find at the document level.which you will find in the payment data tab of the display document screen.
If there is any value in the clearing lock, it indicates that the particular item will not be cleared.
Also check for the posting lock field at the contarct account level. This field prevents any new line item to be posted into the account.
(b) Items which have clearing restriction 8  can't be cleared with any other item nor they can be dunned.Clearing restriction field is also there in the the payment data tab of the display document screen.
I would recommend you to perform the clearing through Account maintaineance (FP06). If it gets cleared, then there is some bug in the clearing control config for Auto clearing.
If it doesn't, then it will throw some error in the status bar. Just go thru the error and you will be analyse it further.
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
Amlan