1. Localizations for Brazil Implementation Guide
  2. Understanding Job Setup

Understanding Job Setup

After you set up the blocks and registers in the FCont Initial Block program (R76B838) and the Block Setup program (P76B0730), you use the FCONT SPED Job Administrator program (P76B940) to set up and run jobs to process the data for FCont reporting. You set up a separate job for each book number. Books numbers are associated with book types. You set up the associations between book numbers and book types in the Book Type Definition program (P76B935). You can also set up several ledger types in a book number. Each job will generally include all of the blocks required for SPED FCont for a specified book number, but you can set up a job to generate the records for only selected blocks.

When you click OK to add a job, the system:

  1. Writes data to the FCONT Jobs Header (F76B836), SPED Jobs Header (F76B940), SPED Job Header Blocks (F76B941) and SPED Job Detail Blocks (F76B942) tables using the values that you entered in the FCONT SPED Job Administrator program and values that you set up in the Block Setup program (P76B0730).

  2. Writes one record corresponding to the Job Batch to the SPED Job Batches table (F76B944). Since the FCont file is unique per year, the system only inserts one record with period blank.

    The system does not assign a batch number until you run all blocks for the job.

  3. Writes records to the SPED Job Signatories table (F76B945) for the signatories that you set up for the legal company in the Legal Company Constants program (P76B010).

    You can modify the signatories information before you run the job.

  4. Writes records to the FCONT Jobs Periodicity (F76B839) table depending on the periodicity detail level:

    • By Quarter: the system inserts four records, one for each quarter, indicating beginning quarter date and ending quarter date.

    • By Year: the system inserts one record.

    • Special Indicator: in this case, for example if the company initiated business this year, you can specify the period from and period to. The system generates the quarters needed.