IBAN information for United States of America's banks accounts

Question

hi
I am creating a vendor (trx XK01) based in the USA, and I am not sure which information should I populate in the IBAN information at vendor's bank account (USA bank account).
Could you please tell me which information should i populate in IBAN for USA vendor?
Does anybody knows what validation SAP makes when populating the IBAN code for a US banks account?
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Answer 1

Rafael,
First things first - as pointed by others in this thread, US does not primarily rely or use the concept of IBAN. So, just putting a normal bank key and bank account no. should suffice for most operational requirements.
However, to answer your query, for IBAN SAP does validations similar to what it does for any other country. The validations are contained in the function module MAINTAIN_IBAN_FROM_DATA where system checks, among other things, for:
- check if IBAN corresponds to country code
Another FM that gets called from within the above-mentioned FM is CHECK_IBAN where the following checks are are included:
- check ISO code exists for country
- check IBAN length
- IBAN can contain just numbers and letters
But then, as I mentioned earlier, you perhaps might not need to go into all this as US does not bother with IBAN much.
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Gulshan