Interfacing allocations

After you calculate your allocations, you must interface them into the SL transaction file using Allocation Interface (SL120). Allocation Interface (SL120) processes released SL allocation journals for the specified parameters and creates new SL transaction records based on the released allocation journal transactions.

Note: You can only transfer an allocation assigned to a journal entry once a month. If you want to transfer an allocation more than once a month, then you must assign the allocation a different journal entry number in Allocation Control (SL13.1).

Follow these steps to interface allocations:

  1. Access Allocation Interface (SL120).
  2. Specify a job name, description, and parameters to interface allocations. Use these guidelines to specify the field values:
    Allocation Group

    One option (Allocation Group or User Analysis Group) is required. This is the allocation group name. This allows you to process the released allocations assigned to the allocation group. You can process SL120 for an allocation group or a user analysis group.

    User Analysis Group

    One option (Allocation Group or User Analysis Group) is required. This is the user analysis group name. This allows you to process the released allocations assigned to the user analysis group. You can process SL120 for an allocation group or a user analysis group.

    Allocation

    This is the allocation name. You can process SL120 for all released allocations or up to eight allocations within an allocation group or a user analysis group. If all the allocation fields are blank, then all released allocations will be processed for the group specified.

    Period

    (Optional) This is the period of the allocation journal.

    Blank = current period

    Fiscal Year

    (Optional) This is the fiscal year of the allocation journal.

    Print Report

    Select whether to print the report or not. The default setting is Yes.

    Report Type

    Required if Print Report is set to Yes. Report Type is considered a valid option if Print Report is set to Yes.

    The default setting S will print the standard reports.

    The reports are:

    • SL120.rpt - Displays the SL transaction in the transaction currency.

    • Error report - When there are errors, this optional report displays base, report one, or report two for each transaction.

  3. Click Submit to interface your allocation.