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Posting Journal - APP 08058 error

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:39:16 -0400
From: "Innamuri, Chakrapani" cinnamuri@btg.com
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: GL/FND Gururs: Getting Error while Posting a Journal ......

Hi all,

I am getting the following error when posting a Journal: "APP-08058: This form failed to submit your Posting Concurrent request. Please ensure that your Concurrent Manager is Running".

Am I missing something ?
Please let me know.
Thanks,
-chakrapani


Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 17:59:51 +0200
From: Jean-Guy_Duba@ernst-young.fr
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: GL/FND Gururs: Getting Error while Posting a Journal ......

The Concurrent manager is down; Start it and then resubmit.


Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:58:19 -0400
From: "Innamuri, Chakrapani" cinnamuri@btg.com
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: GL/FND Gururs: Getting Error while Posting a Journal ......

Hi,
Sorry that I did not mention earlier.
I bounced Conc. Mgr. but no use.
Any other suggestion ?
We just upgraded from 11.0.28 to 11.0.3.
There are no INVALID objects.
Thanks,
-chakrapani


Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:17:13 -0400
From: "Innamuri, Chakrapani" cinnamuri@btg.com
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: GL/FND Gururs: Getting Error while Posting a Journal ......

All,
This is a BUG in 11.0.3.
We upgraded our database from 11.0.28 to 11.0.3.

We need to specify a "Printer" profile option at Site level. Until we specify this, we may not be able to submit any concurrent requests. After I set this to an existing printer, it worked fine.

Cheers.
-chakrapani



Currency field width change

Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 12:20:33 -0700 (PDT)
From: Siddharth Shah shahsd@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Currency Issue--!

Hi folks,

I am adding a legal entity/operating unit to our existing Oracle Apps 10.7 The operating unit is located in Ecudaor. The Currency amount goes up to 18 characters (including decimal and commas) and the front end shows only 12 characters at a time. The users do not want to scroll on the amount field to see the whole amount. Customizing the forms would be too big of an issue. I was wondering if there is a workaround for this issue.

Kindly help us.
Thank you in advance.
Siddharth


Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:30:56 -0600
From: "Kossmann, Bill" BKossmann@mail.dthr.ab.ca
To: "Oracle Applications Forum (E-mail)" OraApps-L@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: FW: Currency Issue--!

Depending upon the form, you could try setting up a folder where the field has been shrunk appropriately with folder tools. Save that folder definition, then make it everyone's default (as Sys Admin).

Bill


Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:14:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Siddharth Shah shahsd@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: FW: Currency Issue--!

Bill,
Would this be a viable option, keeping in mind that we would be facing this issue in all the forms with amount fields in it?

The modules that we are planning to implement are GL, AP, Purchasing and Fixed Assets.

Thank you.
Siddharth


Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:36:19 -0600
From: "Kossmann, Bill" BKossmann@mail.dthr.ab.ca
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: FW: Currency Issue--!

Hmm, now that's a problem. If it was a handful of forms, then it would be manageable--but across multiple modules? Perhaps not.

You would save three spaces (four, if amount 0) by setting the system profiles "Currency:Thousands Separator" to "No" and "Currency:Negative Format" to "-XXX" (this might be more objectionable than scrolling, I don't know).

I guess you have to ask the users how many times they'll be entering "999,999,999,999.99" in the Ecuador currency, and then decide whether or not customization is worthwhile (or even possible).

Good luck!
Bill


Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 13:51:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Siddharth Shah shahsd@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: FW: Currency Issue--!

Bill,

This is a common occurence in Ecuador. Part of the problem is that we have GL and AP in character mode and Fixed Assets and Purchasing in GUI. We are trying to find a common solution to the problem keeping in mind the different environment that we have.

Siddharth


Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 09:57:33 +0100
From: "Steve Spencer" srs@freezone.co.uk
To: OraApps-L@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Currency Issue--!

Sid,

I have read Bill's replies but how about this? You know yhou can use Custom-PLL ("Custom Library") to modify the Forms behaviour - in 10.7SC at least. Now you can change most properties of most items at WHEN_NEW_FORM_INSTANCE, WHEN_NEW_BLOCK_INSTANCE, WHEN_NEW_RECORD_INSTANCE, WHEN_NEW_ITEM_INSTANCE and WHEN_VALIDATE_RECORD_INSTANCE EVENTS.

So for instance you could make a field mandatory or read-only when you enter the form or a specific block. Now as these are properties of the field, you could try changing the design properties (like width) in the same way. If it works, you could widen (and reposition if necessary) fields as soon as you enter the form.

This Custom-PLL is Oracle allowed method of customisation that does not change the form itself but is just a .PLL file that sits on the client (or middle server) and you just use Dorms Designer to amend and compile as normal. We used it a LOT because our users wanted a lot of changes!

There's an Oracle manual that describes all the APP properties etc but I cant remember its name. You are supposed to change with APP_ITEM_PROPERTY.SET_ITEM_PROPERTY instead of the Forms SET_ITEM_PROPERTY, but I fear that for design properties you will have to use SET_ITEM_PROPERTY or some other Forms built-in that allows you to set an item's dimensions. We didnt use the "APP_ITEM..." at all and had no problems! Go to the Forms help and see if you can change design properties with SET_ITEM_PROPERTY or anything else - this is the key to the whole issue; if you can't then Custom-PLL will be no use here...

OR....
You could use Custom-PLL to "disable" the currency field and add your own currency DFF segment at the same level. Then use the WHEN_VALIDATE_RECORD_INSTANCE under Custom-PLL to stuff the DFF contents into Oracle's currency field behind the scenes when you leave the record. Or do it with a trigger on updating the table? You can even validate & format (to some extent) the DFF entry too. This solution is not as nice...

Cheers,
Steve Spencer.



Import Spawn Process

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:36:32 +0530
From: sujata/Polaris@polaris.co.in
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Help Urgent : GL_Import Spawns Processes.

Hi Friends,

We are facing a problem in GL_Import Program. The scenario is this :-

We have to bring in Journals from a legacy system into Oracle Apps. We are bringing the data thr'u SQL Loader in GL_Interface table. Then we are running Journal Import program to load journals into GL. The no of lines/records vary from 1000 to 75000(on rare occasions). The import program spawns as many no of processes as the no of lines.Then the spawned processes complete with error.

Please tell us in what situations spawning could happen ? Has this ever happened to anybody. We are on Rel 10.7/Oracle7.x.

Thanks & Regards,
Sujata kanchan
Oracle Apps Div.
Polaris software Lab Limited
Noida,
India.


Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 07:49:17 -0400
From: "Anand Gonsalves" agonsalves@glenraven.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Help Urgent : GL_Import Spawns Processes.

Hi Sujata
Could U be more specific about ur problem.We do GL Interface everyday and don't have any problems. So if U could give me more detials of ur problem I could try to help U out.

Thanks
Anand


Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 06:05:32 PDT
From: "Mohammed Liyakath" liyakath@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Help Urgent : GL_Import Spawns Processes.

Hi,

It looks like some problem with your setup.

Go to GL superuser -- System -- Control and check the fields NUMBER LINES TO PROCESS AT ONCE ( Don't give anything there if will take default value)

This may be a problem.

Regards,
Liyakath


Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 09:38:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: DIPANKAR BASU dipankar_99@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Help Urgent : GL_Import Spawns Processes.

Hi Sujata,

From what I understand, you have to do a one time conversion of your data from the legacy system.

The first thing you may see is whether the flat file is correct. I am sure you are loading a .txt file, are you not?

Second, define a new table, name it maybe gl_temp_interface with exactly the same columns as the gl_interface tables, and with the same properties.

Third, Insert into gl_temp_interface thru SQL loader. Use a cursor and define some constant values. If any of the not null columns experiences a null value, then the constant value will be taken.

Check the number of rows after loading, thru count command.

Follow the rest regular method you are using.

Hope this helps.
Dipankar


Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 09:13:03 +0530
From: sujata/Polaris@polaris.co.in
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Help Urgent : GL_Import Spawns Processes.

Hi ,
Thanks for replying. My control parameters are like this
Control segment -- Account
No of Accounts -- 2500
No of Lines to process at Once -- 1000

Is this OK. Problem is sometimes it does import succesfully.

thanks & regards,



Encumberance and Actual Report

Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 09:46:09 PDT
From: "prince suthakar" prince_sutha@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Problem in encumberance

Hello,

I took two Account Analysis report for aug period.
1. BALANCE TYPE = Actual.
2. Balance Type = 'Encumberance' and encumberance type = 'Obligaction';

My problem is In Actual rport, Debit column have values and Credits have no values. ie correct.

but In Encumberence report, credits having values, but no values debits, it should be wrong. How do i find this problem.

There no pr and po.
coluld you please help me out.
Thanks


GL Interface reversal

Date: 2 Sep 99 10:47:47 PDT
From: Roger Drolet rdrolet@netscape.net
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Urgent Problem - GL interface from AR

The General Ledger Interface was inadvertently generated in AR.

Unfortunately, there were numerous transactions that we imported from OE that needed to be corrected and some had to be voided. After the GL Interface is generated, you can't make revisions to transactions that were interfaced.

Is there a way to reverse the GL Interface so that the client can make the necessary corrections to the transactions? I welcome any suggestions. There are approx 50 invoices involved.

Roger


Journal - unposted Report-All JE lines have same Trx date

Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 08:49:42 PDT
From: "BHASKER SHYAMALA" s_bhasker@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Transaction date is same to all journals

I have problem with unposted journal report. When I run this for line item it is noticed that transaction date is same for all the journals entry lines. we are using apps 10.7 sc16.1. with Dec-alpha open vms. Also applied patch gl-498268under GL SERVER SIDE PATCHSET #4. But no change. Can anyone help us to overcome this.

Thanks
ShayamalaB



End of Year Processing

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:57:49 -0400
From: Carolyn DeSimone cdesimone@goaa.org
To: "Multiple recipients of list (E-mail)" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: PO End of Year Processing

We are approaching the end or our fiscal year (9-30-99) for the first time using Oracle Applications.

We are using Oracle Government PO, GL, AP, Inv, OE (all 10SC)

Can anyone offer pros/cons, experiences, nightmares about Carry Forward rules:

Encumbrances Only
Encumbrances and Encumbered Budget
Funds Available

Regards,
Carolyn DeSimone
Purchasing Systems Administration
407-825-2028
page: 570-9439
email: cdesimone@goaa.org


Dual Currency Vs MRC

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:26:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: mark liberman m_liberman@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Dual Currency

Hi,

One of the profile options allows to use Dual Currency. Could someone please help me to understand what does this functionality do, and how it's different from MRC ?


Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 12:22:52 PDT
From: "Prasanna Kumar Jena" pk_jena@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Dual Currency

Dear Mark,
Dual currency is the functionality given by Apps before they came up with multi-currency functionality. It helps you to enter dual currency journal entries, where you can specify the dual currency's exchange rate or the converted amount. Dual currency helps you to translate(in the dual currency) the balances on account to account basis as well as on weighted-average basis. Dual Currency is only one currency - specified in Dual Currency profile option and can use one default rate specified in Dual currency default rate type.

Its important functionality :-

There may be a situation where the exchange rate of one currency (should be one of your revenue earning currencies)is very volatile. So instead of reporting gain/loss on translation on a set of book basis, you would like to get it on an account to account basis - for important accounts like Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable etc.

regards
Prasanna Jena


Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 22:04:32 PDT
From: "ravi chandran" johnny_ravi@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Dual Currency

Mark,

Dual currency is a feature of ver10.7. By enabling this option you can do transactation in two currencies.

MRC is a special feature of ver11. You must define the primary and secondary sets of book and you can view your transaction in any number of currencies you want.

Ravi



Exchange Rates - define

Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:46:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: david gordon dg2435@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Exchange rates

HI,

The system doesn't allow me to enter foreign currency transactions, if there's no exchange rate for that excact day....Does anyone know a way to setup the system so it would take the last available exchange rate ?

TIA,
David


Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 12:24:59 PDT
From: "Prasanna Kumar Jena" pk_jena@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Exchange rates

Hi,
You can try using the user rate type and enter the last exchange rate manually.
Prasanna Jena


Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 03:43:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: david gordon dg2435@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Re: Exchange rates

Thanks,
but i'm trying to find a way to use spot/corporate rates & have the system automaticly use the last entered rate

David


Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 08:21:39 +0200
From: Gorre Richard GorreR@fnherstal.com
To: "'oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca'" oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Exchange rates

Hi
In V10.7 you need the rate for the day I read in documentation that V11 or V11i will provide:
the possibility to load rate from XLS or the possibility to use the last one please verify

Richard Gorr
Tel 32 4 240 88 37


Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 04:10:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: david gordon dg2435@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Exchange rates

Hi,
We're in V11.0.2,
That's what i expected, if there is no rate for the day, the system should use the last entered rate, but it doesn't....
I suspect i missed a setup for that....
Do you know which setup is it ?

Thanks,
David


Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 12:23:40 +0100
From: aworley3@csc.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Exchange rates

The client I'm currently working with is live on 11.0.2 and using Oracle's standard exchange rate interface mechanism. This consists of an interface table which is used to load daily rates for ranges of dates. The table has a trigger associated with it such that when a row (or rows) are commited a stored procedure runs to generate the rates. It also generates the reverse rates (ie. if the user enters a rate fro GBP to USD, the procedure will create corresponding entries for USD to GBP). It also provides functionality to change or remove rates.

For useability, we created a concurrent program to accept the parameters (from/to dates, from/to currency, rate, rate type, and update type) so that the user can run it themselves.

If you are interested, I can probably dig up some more detailed documentation.

Regards,
Andy Worley
CSC Computer Sciences Ltd. - Consulting & Systems Integration UK Division


Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 10:11:01 PDT
From: "Harish K" har23@hotmail.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Exchange rates

Hi:
The feature you are talking about is available for MRC purposes. When you assign your reporting books (setup financials books assign), you should be able to specify whether to error if rate is not found or use the last rate defined. In the form, the column is called "no rate action". One disadvantage of using this option is that you may take a performance hit. Since MRC is a trigger based solution, it will take more time to look back at the last defined rate. The number of days it will go back to look at rates is thru a profile option: MRC: Max Days to Rollforward Conversion Rate.

Starting rel11, Oracle also provides an interface table-
gl_daily_rates_interface table to upload rates from XLS. There is a trigger on this interface table and it updates the gl_daily_rates table.

Hope that helps,
Harish


Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 22:20:25 +0200
From: "Dina Rotem (h)" dinar@rafael.co.il
To: Ora OraApps-L@cpa.qc.ca, david gordon dg2435@yahoo.com
Subject: RE: Exchange rates

Hello David

Harish is right. In release 11 you can choose to use the latest rate only for MRC conversion. For entering transactions in foreign currency you don't have such functionality.

Our process is to enter each day (afternoon) the current exchange rates for the corporate conversion type. We are populating exchange rates upfront for today and the next working day, based on today current rate. By this method you always have an exchange rate available for entering transactions. The current entry of rates will take affect from the entering moment through the next day, until the next rates are available.

Dina


Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:02:15 -0700
From: "Mohan Iyer" miyer@fortuna.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Exchange rates

Hi there,

The way to use the foreign currency transaction in Oracle Apps is to specify a type of rate - the seeded ones are Corporate, Spot and User, maybe more. You can also enter your own reate types in the system.

When you enter a foreign currency transaction the system will force you to enter a rate type and an associated rate date, and will then default the rate in the next field.

In the rate type if you enter Spot the rate date will default to the system date and you will have to have a rate defined for the type of Spot and the current system date in the Daily Rates table. If you enter a type of Corporate then you enter a specific date and you will have to have a rate defined for the type of Corporate and the date entered in the Daily Rates table.

If you enter User as the rate type the system defaults the system date and the user can enter any rate that he wants.

Any other rate that is defined will behave as if it was similar to the Corporate Rate Type.

I hope this helps clear your doubts a bit.

Thanks,
Mohan Iyer
Financials Consultant
Sunnyvale, CA



Consolidation - SOBs with differenct Calendars

Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 14:16:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Siddharth Shah shahsd@yahoo.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: Set of Books!

All-

My client has two Set of Books. One SOB has the Fiscal Calendar and the other has the Monthly Calendar. Any suggestions on how to Consolidate these two Set of Books?

Kindly help.
Thank you in advance.
Siddharth Shah


Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 20:02:29 -0700
From: "Mohan Iyer" miyer@fortuna.com
To: oraapps-l@cpa.qc.ca
Subject: RE: Set of Books!

You can create a rule for mapping the calendar months to each of the calendar books. Start of with the first period in the Fiscal Calendar and map it to the first one in the Monthly Calendar and this should do the trick if only your calendars are different.

When you actually do the concolidation you can specify the period in the Subsidiary and the Parent Set of books and they can be different.

Hope this helps
Thanks,
Mohan Iyer
Financials Consultant
Sunnyvale, CA