Record Reservation for Payments

Record reservation for payments is a process in which the system determines, before writing payments, how many payment numbers to reserve for a payment cycle. The system adds that number to the next payment number in the Bank Transit Master (F0030) table. The F0030 table has a record for each bank account in the system. Payment numbers are reserved by bank account.

The purpose of using the record reservation process is to prevent more than one payment from having the same payment number. This is especially useful when more than one user is making payments from one bank account at the same time.

To use record reservation, you must add the F0030 table to UDC 00/RR with the Special Handling Code field set to 1.

After the user defined code is set up, the system determines the number of payments to use when you write payments, and increases the value in the Next Check Number field in the F0030 table by that number. In the payment cycle, if the next payment number in the F0030 table is 258, and the record reservation process determines that you use 30 payment numbers, the system updates the next payment number to 288. When another person writes payments from the same bank account, the next payment number will begin at 288. The system uses payment numbers between 258 and 287 only for the payment cycle that reserved those numbers.

If two users access the write payments process at the same time, the system activates the record reservation process for the first user and sends an error message to the second user. When the first user completes the record reservation process, the second user can access a payment number record and reserve the number of payments that are needed for that payment cycle.