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                             ACDBTRANS FILE

UPDATED BY

AC54.2    AC54.3    AC541     AC542

FIELD NAME           DESCRIPTION/VALID VALUES                    UPDATED BY

DBT-RUN-GROUP        Alpha 15
Run Group            Run Group and Seq Number are the keys
                     to the file.  They should be used to
                     group records together for interfacing.

DBT-SEQ-NUMBER       Numeric 6
Record Sequence      A unique number assigned to each
Number               transaction to be transferred into the
                     Lawson system.


DBT-ACTIVITY         Alpha 15                                    AC54.2  AC54.3
Activity             Activities are the processes or
                     procedures that produce work. Cost
                     objects (products, services, customers,
                     and so on) are the reasons for
                     performing the activity.


DBT-ACCT-CATEGORY    Alpha 5                                     AC54.3
Account Category     Account categories are groupings of
                     costs, revenues, or a combination of
                     both used for reporting and inquiries
                     for activities in the Activity
                     Management system. All transactions are
                     posted to an account category within an
                     activity. You can assign a specific
                     General Ledger account or range of
                     accounts (company, accounting unit,
                     account, and subaccount) that make up
                     the transactions posted to an account
                     category using AC07.1 (Account
                     Assignment).

                     Period-to-date, year-to-date, and
                     life-to-date balances are maintained by
                     account category for activities. Account
                     categories must be assigned to
                     activities before you do any budgeting
                     or transaction processing.

DBT-POSTING-DATE     Numeric 8  (yyyymmdd)
Posting Date         The date assigned to the journal entry
                     for posting.

DBT-TRANS-DATE       Numeric 8  (yyyymmdd)                       AC54.2
Transaction Date     The date of the transaction.

DBT-DIST-COMPANY     Numeric 4
Distribution Company The company number used for posting the
                     transaction. A valid intercompany
                     relationship must be defined in the
                     Lawson General Ledger system.

DBT-DS-ACCT-UNIT     Alpha 15
Ds Acct Unit

DBT-DESCRIPTION      Alpha 30  (Lower Case)
Description          This field displays the description.

DBT-TRAN-CURRENCY    Alpha 5
Tax Transaction
Currency

DBT-TRAN-AMOUNT      Signed 15.2
Invoice Amount       This is the amount in transaction
                     currency to be posted. This amount
                     creates a CUAMOUNT type 1 record.

DBT-TRAN-ND          Numeric 1
Transaction Number   The number of decimal positions defined
of Decimals          for the transaction currency.

DBT-PAYMENT-AMT      Signed 15.2
Payment Amt

DBT-PAYMENT-CURR     Alpha 5
Payment Curr

DBT-PAYMENT-ND       Numeric 1
Payment Nd

DBT-PAYMENT-RATE     Signed 12.6
Payment Rate

DBT-INVOICE          Alpha 22
Invoice Number       Used to identify the invoice.

DBT-EXPENSE-CODE     Alpha 20                                    AC54.2
Expense Code

DBT-AP-COMPANY       Numeric 4                                   AC54.2
Ap Company

DBT-VENDOR           Alpha 9  (Right Justified)
Vendor ID            The vendor's identification code.



DBT-SOURCE-CODE      Alpha 2
Source Code          A two character code assigned to a
                     transaction to identify where the
                     transaction was created.

DBT-UNITS-AMOUNT     Signed 15.2
Units Amount         This is the units amount included in
                     the file.

DBT-PAYMENT-TYPE     Alpha 2
Payment Type

DBT-HR-COMPANY       Numeric 4
HR Company

DBT-EMPLOYEE         Numeric 9
Employee             Contains the employee number. Each
                     person employed by the company is
                     assigned a unique number. The system
                     uses the employee number to correlate
                     all of the information related to that
                     person.

DBT-PAY-CODE         Alpha 4
Payment Code         Contains the pay code. A pay code is a
                     user-defined code that identifies a kind
                     of pay.

DBT-LOCAT-CODE       Alpha 10
Location

DBT-JOB-CODE         Alpha 9
Job Code             Contains a user-defined code that
                     represents a type of job.

DBT-SHIFT            Numeric 1
Shift                Contains the shift number associated
                     with the pay.

DBT-MATRIX-CAT-1     Alpha 12
Attribute 1

DBT-MATRIX-CAT-2     Alpha 12
Attribute 2

DBT-MATRIX-CAT-3     Alpha 12
Attribute 3

DBT-MX-VALUE-1       Alpha 32
Attribute Value

DBT-MX-VALUE-2       Alpha 32
Attribute Value

DBT-MX-VALUE-3       Alpha 32
Attribute Value

DBT-TRANS-TYPE       Alpha 1                                     AC54.2
Transaction Type     Determines if amounts or units are
                     processed in each transaction.

DBT-PREV-RUN-GROUP   Alpha 12
Prev Run Group

DBT-FLAG1            Alpha 1
Tax Distrib. Flag -
Tax Code 1

DBT-ORIG-OBJ-ID      Numeric 12
Orig Obj Id

DBT-ATN-OBJ-ID       Numeric 12                                  AC541
Atn Object ID        The system-defined object id
                     representing the Activity Management
                     commitment.

DBT-PAY-PER-END-DT   Numeric 8  (yyyymmdd)
Pay Per End Dt

DBT-PAY-VENDOR       Alpha 9  (Right Justified)                  AC54.2
Paid Vendor

                         ACDBTRANS FILE INDEX

NAME      KEY FIELDS    DESCRIPTION / SUBSET CONDITION           USED IN

DBTSET1   RUN-GROUP                                              AC54.2  AC54.3
          SEQ-NUMBER                                             AC541   AC542