Hierarchy
FI-CA (Software Component) FI-CA⤷
FI-CA (Application Component) Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable⤷
FKKB (Package) Contract A/R & A/P: Central Objects
Basic Data
| Data Element | PARAL_PAY |
| Short Description | Payment Media: Number of Jobs for Parallelization |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | NUM2 | |
| Data Type | NUMC | Character string with only digits |
| Length | 2 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 2 | |
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Further Characteristics
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| No Input History | ||
| Basic direction is set to LTR | ||
| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Paral.Jobs |
| Medium | 15 | Parallel Jobs |
| Long | 20 | Parallel Jobs |
| Heading | 4 | Jobs |
Documentation
Definition
Determines over how many jobs the payment media can be parallel. A value of 0 or 1 means that the creation of payment media is serialized.
Bagkground
Usually, the creation of payment media is serialized. This means that each payment run creates one file per payment group. The larger the number of documents paid via the payment run, the longer it takes to create the payment media. Under certain circumstances, this can take several hours.
Example
A payment run pays the items of one million documents from the same payment group. These documents are split over 10 interval jobs. Once the last interval job has been processed, the payment media creation is triggered. The processing is as follows:
- No parallelization (serial)
The system creates a large payment media file. The time required for the creation and transfer is approximately 5 hours depending on the character of the events in the program.
- With parallelization
The documents created by the individual interval jobs of the payment run are distributed over the available jobs for the creation of payment media. If the documents cannot be distributed evenly over the payment media creation jobs, any remaining documents are assigned to the last job. If more jobs are specified than are necessary, the total number of interval jobs is used regardless.
For the creation of payment media, this means:
If there are two jobs available, each job contains the content of five interval jobs of the payment run. The time required is reduced by approximately half.
If 99 jobs are available, the system automatically restricts the number to 10. Each job contains exactly one interval job from the payment run. The time required is approximately 30 minutes.
If four jobs are available, the first three jobs each receive two jobs from the payment run. The last job receives four. The time required is approximately 1.5 hours.
Prerequisite
In order for the value entered here to be applied, the indicator Parallelization permitted must be set in the payment media format.
Note
For payment methods where you do not require parallelization, you can set a corresponding indicator in the variant. This is useful for formats that manage both incoming and outgoing payments and where, for example, outgoing payments are to appear in a file.
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20050224 |
| SAP Release Created in | 463 |
