Options when closing the Billing period

You run the program Subledger Close (BL199) to close the billing period in the Billing and Order Entry applications at the end of a period. You must run BL199 before running Period Closing (GL199) to close the general ledger period. However, running BL199 is required only if you indicated that the billing period must be closed before the general ledger period in System Control (GL01.1).

With BL199, you have three options to choose from:

Purge distribution records and close the period	Specify a period, year, and general ledger cutoff date. All records prior to, and not including, the date you specify are purged.
Purge distribution records only	Specify a general ledger cutoff date but no period or year.
Save purged records	Choose to clear the output file and save purged records to disk.