[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":743},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002Fsap-dmee-payment-file-format-tree":3,"blog-related-\u002Fblog\u002Fsap-dmee-payment-file-format-tree":717,"blog-surround-\u002Fblog\u002Fsap-dmee-payment-file-format-tree":742},{"id":4,"title":5,"audience":6,"body":10,"cluster":621,"conversionGoal":622,"cornerstone":623,"date":624,"description":625,"draft":623,"extension":626,"factCheckedAt":624,"faq":627,"featured":623,"language":622,"meta":640,"minRead":641,"navigation":642,"order":643,"originalAsset":622,"path":644,"pillar":645,"primaryKeyword":646,"publicationOrder":647,"relatedProject":622,"releaseScope":648,"reviewCycle":649,"reviewMethod":650,"reviewStatus":651,"reviewedAt":624,"reviewedBy":652,"searchIntent":653,"seo":654,"sources":655,"stem":710,"tags":711,"type":715,"updated":622,"__hash__":716},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fsap-dmee-payment-file-format-tree.md","SAP DMEE: How Payment File Formats Are Built",[7,8,9],"sap-treasury-consultant","treasury-system-lead","solution-architect",{"type":11,"value":12,"toc":608},"minimark",[13,27,32,35,38,87,100,113,117,128,131,147,150,154,161,223,230,271,278,282,289,359,365,387,394,404,408,419,439,446,450,473,477,480,503,506,510,525,528,556,559,563,566,590,593,596],[14,15,16,20,21,26],"p",{},[17,18,19],"strong",{},"Every payment file SAP produces through the Payment Medium Workbench is built by walking a tree."," The payment run creates payment data, the PMW calls its payment medium program, and a DMEE format tree — one node per record, field and sub-field of the bank's file specification — maps system fields into the file, node by node, top to bottom. If you can read the tree, you can predict the file; if you can't, every format incident is archaeology. This page is the configuration-level reference for that tree: the node types, the mapping procedures, the source structures, and where DMEE stops and the PMW begins. Same method as the rest of this ",[22,23,25],"a",{"href":24},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhat-is-sap-treasury-and-risk-management","SAP treasury guide",": search \"sap dmee\" and you'll find screenshot tutorials asserting node types and source structures nobody can source, so everything below is checked against SAP's own documentation, and what I couldn't verify is named at the end instead of quietly included.",[28,29,31],"h2",{"id":30},"where-dmee-sits-f110-pmw-tree-file","Where DMEE sits: F110 → PMW → tree → file",[14,33,34],{},"SAP's own description of the outgoing-file flow is worth quoting almost verbatim, because it settles the \"DMEE vs PMW\" confusion in one paragraph. When you execute a payment run, the system triggers the generic payment medium program of the PMW; the PMW format uses the DMEE format tree to create the file that goes to your bank. The engine's job, in SAP's technical view, is four steps: the calling application selects data and fills the transfer structure, calls the DMEE modules with the selected data, gets back an internal table in the format structure, and writes the data to a file (updating DME administration in the payment case). There's even a documented BAdI — File Modification, under DME Engine in Customizing for Cross-Application Components — that lets you touch the internal table between steps three and four.",[14,36,37],{},"So the division of labour is:",[39,40,41,54],"table",{},[42,43,44],"thead",{},[45,46,47,51],"tr",{},[48,49,50],"th",{},"Layer",[48,52,53],{},"Owns",[55,56,57,71,79],"tbody",{},[45,58,59,68],{},[60,61,62,63,67],"td",{},"Payment run (F110, or ",[22,64,66],{"href":65},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsap-treasury-transaction-codes","treasury's F111",")",[60,69,70],{},"Deciding what gets paid, when, how — and writing the payment data",[45,72,73,76],{},[60,74,75],{},"Payment Medium Workbench (PMW)",[60,77,78],{},"The format's configuration shell: output type, note to payee, variants, DME administration",[45,80,81,84],{},[60,82,83],{},"DMEE format tree",[60,85,86],{},"The field-by-field mapping from system data to the bank's file layout",[14,88,89,90,94,95,99],{},"The PMW itself, per SAP's documentation, is the tool that configures and creates payment media, built to gradually phase out the classic RFFO* payment medium programs — with better mass-payment performance (SAP cites >50,000 payments), better control, and easier maintenance. It's not payments-only in ownership terms either: SAP lists FI-AP\u002FAR, travel management, payroll, cash management and treasury as components that use it. Where the file goes ",[91,92,93],"em",{},"after"," it exists — batching, approval, bank transmission — is a different layer again, and the ",[22,96,98],{"href":97},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsap-bcm-apm-output-management-architecture","output-management architecture article"," maps that whole stack; this page stays inside the format.",[14,101,102,103,107,108,112],{},"One consultant-grade correction to the forum lore, straight from SAP's support documentation: not every payment format is a DMEE tree. SAP maintains two groups — formats implemented with function modules (its examples: DTAZV, MT101) and formats implemented with the DME Engine (its examples: CH_DTA, SEPA_CT, V3). So if you've been hunting for the ",[22,104,106],{"href":105},"\u002Fblog\u002Fmt101-vs-mt103-vs-mt202","MT101"," format tree in DMEE, that's why you haven't found it. The DMEE-built formats include the XML credit-transfer families — and if the file your tree produces is a pain.001, the ",[22,109,111],{"href":110},"\u002Fblog\u002Fpain-001-structure-and-fields","structure of that file itself"," has its own reference on this site.",[28,114,116],{"id":115},"what-a-format-tree-actually-is","What a format tree actually is",[14,118,119,120,123,124,127],{},"SAP's definition is compact: the DME Engine lets you model an externally defined bank format in the SAP system, because there is no worldwide standard payment file format — sometimes not even a national one — and covering every local format in standard software isn't realistic. The format tree is that model. You create one in transaction DMEE (DMEEX in current S\u002F4HANA — more below): choose a ",[17,121,122],{},"tree type",", name the tree — usually after the format itself — and specify whether it generates a ",[17,125,126],{},"flat file or an XML file",". The tree starts from a root node called the header, and you insert nodes hierarchically until the tree mirrors the bank's file layout description, then activate it. Only an active tree can be used by calling applications.",[14,129,130],{},"Two things about that creation flow carry most of the practical weight:",[132,133,134,141],"ul",{},[135,136,137,140],"li",{},[17,138,139],{},"The tree type decides everything downstream"," — which source structures the mapping offers you, and which application can call the tree. PAYM is the payment program's tree type; it is why a payment tree offers you payment structures and a tax tree offers you tax structures.",[135,142,143,146],{},[17,144,145],{},"For PAYM trees, the PMW format and the DMEE tree must have identical names."," SAP's documentation states this twice, in both directions. When the names drift apart — usually a Z-copy renamed on one side only — the format stops resolving, and the error will not tell you why.",[14,148,149],{},"Format trees are transportable, and can alternatively be uploaded and downloaded as XML files — which is also the honest answer to \"how do I diff two trees\": download both and compare the XML. SAP delivers predefined trees for many countries' formats, and the sane implementation move is copying the closest delivered tree rather than building from an empty root.",[28,151,153],{"id":152},"the-node-types","The node types",[14,155,156,157,160],{},"SAP documents two node-type sets, one per file style. For ",[17,158,159],{},"flat files"," (fixed-length or delimited records):",[39,162,163,173],{},[42,164,165],{},[45,166,167,170],{},[48,168,169],{},"Node",[48,171,172],{},"SAP's definition",[55,174,175,183,191,199,207,215],{},[45,176,177,180],{},[60,178,179],{},"Segment group",[60,181,182],{},"Groups segments",[45,184,185,188],{},[60,186,187],{},"Segment",[60,189,190],{},"Represents a record in the target file",[45,192,193,196],{},[60,194,195],{},"Composite",[60,197,198],{},"Groups elements",[45,200,201,204],{},[60,202,203],{},"Element",[60,205,206],{},"Represents a target field of the DME file",[45,208,209,212],{},[60,210,211],{},"Atom",[60,213,214],{},"Outputs more than one value to a single element, or controls which value is output, based on conditions",[45,216,217,220],{},[60,218,219],{},"Technical node",[60,221,222],{},"Not output to the file; stores values that other nodes (elements, atoms) use by referencing this node",[14,224,225,226,229],{},"For ",[17,227,228],{},"XML files",":",[39,231,232,240],{},[42,233,234],{},[45,235,236,238],{},[48,237,169],{},[48,239,172],{},[55,241,242,249,256,263],{},[45,243,244,246],{},[60,245,203],{},[60,247,248],{},"One line of the XML file; carries a value itself, or groups other elements as subnodes",[45,250,251,253],{},[60,252,211],{},[60,254,255],{},"Same two jobs as in flat trees — multiple values into one element, or condition-controlled value selection",[45,257,258,260],{},[60,259,219],{},[60,261,262],{},"Same as in flat trees — stored, referenced, never output",[45,264,265,268],{},[60,266,267],{},"XML attribute",[60,269,270],{},"A subnode of an element; provides detail for the element, and can hold atoms as subnodes (for mapped conditions)",[14,272,273,274,277],{},"The reading that makes trees legible on first open: ",[17,275,276],{},"segments are lines, elements are fields, composites and segment groups are grouping brackets, and atoms and technical nodes are logic."," A tree with no atoms and no technical nodes is a plain transcription of the bank's spec. Every atom is a fork — \"this field can be filled more than one way\" — and every technical node is a computed intermediate someone needed twice. Count the atoms and technical nodes and you've measured how much decision logic the format carries; that's where the debugging time will go.",[28,279,281],{"id":280},"the-mapping-seven-procedures-four-youll-actually-use","The mapping: seven procedures, four you'll actually use",[14,283,284,285,288],{},"Mapping is the step where the tree stops being a drawing of the file and becomes a program. For each element (or atom) you select a ",[17,286,287],{},"mapping procedure","; SAP's table for outgoing files lists seven:",[39,290,291,301],{},[42,292,293],{},[45,294,295,298],{},[48,296,297],{},"Mapping procedure",[48,299,300],{},"When SAP says to use it",[55,302,303,311,319,327,335,343,351],{},[45,304,305,308],{},[60,306,307],{},"Constant",[60,309,310],{},"The value is a fixed constant",[45,312,313,316],{},[60,314,315],{},"Structure field",[60,317,318],{},"The value comes from a specific source field in the system",[45,320,321,324],{},[60,322,323],{},"Reference to tree node",[60,325,326],{},"An attribute of an already-defined node — its current value, length, or counter reading — is reused",[45,328,329,332],{},[60,330,331],{},"Aggregation",[60,333,334],{},"A value related to reference nodes is totalled and made available to this node",[45,336,337,340],{},[60,338,339],{},"Exit module",[60,341,342],{},"Standard mapping and conversion rules don't cover the requirement, so a function module supplies the value",[45,344,345,348],{},[60,346,347],{},"Own mapping (atoms)",[60,349,350],{},"Elements only: the rules depend on conditions, or parts of the element fill from different sources",[45,352,353,356],{},[60,354,355],{},"No mapping",[60,357,358],{},"XML trees only: the element carries no value itself and just groups subnodes",[14,360,361,362,364],{},"SAP's own documentation says most cases are the mapping procedure ",[17,363,315],{}," — one system field into one target field, picked from the source field inventory. Constants cover the literals every format carries (record type codes, format identifiers). The remaining procedures are the interesting ones:",[132,366,367,372,377,382],{},[135,368,369,371],{},[17,370,323],{}," is what technical nodes exist for, and it's also how counters and lengths get into headers and trailers — a node can expose its counter reading, not just its value.",[135,373,374,376],{},[17,375,331],{}," is the trailer-record procedure: on the Aggregation tab you enter the reference IDs of the nodes to total and the aggregation type — sum of values (elements only, optionally as absolute values, ignoring signs) or count of occurrences. SAP's examples are exactly what you'd guess: total amount of all payments in a level, number of payments in a level.",[135,378,379,381],{},[17,380,339],{}," is the escape hatch: an ABAP function module, written in the ABAP Workbench — SAP's note is explicit that you don't write code in the DME Engine — from the delivered templates DMEE_EXIT_TEMPLATE or DMEE_EXIT_TEMPLATE_EXTENDED. Documented reach: exits can select from database tables that aren't in the standard selection step at all, customer tables included. That power is why a tree with many exits is no longer inspectable from the tree alone — you're back to reading ABAP.",[135,383,384,386],{},[17,385,347],{}," turns one element into a decision: create the atoms as subnodes, give each its own procedure and source, and conditions decide which one fires.",[14,388,389,390,393],{},"Optionally, each mapping can name a ",[17,391,392],{},"conversion method"," to reformat the source value for the file; with none specified, data transfers in the format it has in the system — which is precisely how internal date and amount formats leak into files when a delivered tree is copied carelessly.",[14,395,396,399,400,403],{},[17,397,398],{},"Conditions"," deserve their own paragraph, because they're the top cause of \"the field just isn't there\". Any node in an outgoing tree can carry conditions; each condition line compares two arguments, and each argument is one of three types SAP numbers explicitly: 1 = constant, 2 = field in a source structure, 3 = reference ID of another node. Lines chain with AND\u002FOR. At generation time the engine checks each node's conditions and ignores the node when they fail — and if a condition on an upper-level node fails, ",[17,401,402],{},"all subnodes are skipped with it",". SAP's documentation recommends the pattern deliberately: put one condition on a segment or composite to switch a whole record on or off. Efficient in design, brutal in support — the element you're staring at can be perfect while its grandparent's condition kills it.",[28,405,407],{"id":406},"the-data-underneath-fpay-structures-and-reguhregup","The data underneath: FPAY* structures and REGUH\u002FREGUP",[14,409,410,411,414,415,418],{},"What can a PAYM tree actually map ",[91,412,413],{},"from","? SAP's data mapping documentation answers structurally: the tree type determines which system structures and tables are available — for PAYM, the FPAY* structures. Its support documentation on modifying PMW formats names them: ",[17,416,417],{},"FPAYH, FPAYP and FPAYHX",", \"so the fields of these structures can be used in the nodes.\" That's the interface the tree sees — a header-level structure, an item-level structure, and an extension — and it's why the same tree design serves any caller that fills the interface.",[14,420,421,422,425,426,429,430,433,434,438],{},"The payment run's own tables sit a layer below. SAP's payment-program documentation describes the sequence: the proposal run creates entries in REGUS, REGUH and REGUP; the payment run creates the production entries in ",[17,423,424],{},"REGUH"," (settlement data from the payment program) and ",[17,427,428],{},"REGUP"," (the processed items), and the print\u002Fmedium step writes ",[17,431,432],{},"REGUT",", the TemSe administration data whose entries record code page, program name and format. Those tables — where they live and how to read them — are covered in the ",[22,435,437],{"href":436},"\u002Fblog\u002Fsap-treasury-tables","treasury tables reference","; at file-generation time, the tree maps from the FPAY* transfer structures the engine is called with, and the source field inventory is what presents those fields to you.",[14,440,441,442,445],{},"That inventory is worth knowing as a concept, because it's the mapping screen's entire vocabulary: per tree type, SAP predefines the possible source fields — application fields, ABAP system fields (system date and the like), technical fields, and, specific to PAYM, ",[17,443,444],{},"note-to-payee fields"," served as an internal table, whose filling depends on the note-to-payee settings in the PMW format Customizing. If a field isn't in the inventory, the standard procedures can't map it — that's the documented boundary where exit modules begin.",[28,447,449],{"id":448},"tree-types-beyond-paym","Tree types beyond PAYM",[14,451,452,453,456,457,460,461,464,465,468,469,472],{},"\"DMEE\" and \"payment formats\" get used interchangeably, but tree type PAYM is one entry in a documented list. SAP's outgoing-file documentation names, for Financial Accounting alone: ",[17,454,455],{},"PAYM"," (payment program), ",[17,458,459],{},"UMS1\u002FUMS2\u002FUMS3"," (advance return for tax on sales\u002Fpurchases — differing in summarization: none, per tax code\u002Ftransaction key, or per your output Customizing), ",[17,462,463],{},"WTRE"," (generic withholding tax reporting via RFIDYYWT), ",[17,466,467],{},"ASLD"," (EC sales list via RFASLD20) and ",[17,470,471],{},"DEBT"," (US 1099-C via RFIDUS99C). Each tree type carries its own source structures — UMS2 maps from RFUMS2_TAX_ITEM, for instance — which is the concrete meaning of \"the tree type decides your inventory\". If you configure payment formats only, you'll never touch the others; if you support DMEE as a platform, expect a tax tree eventually.",[28,474,476],{"id":475},"pmw-configuration-the-settings-that-bind-tree-to-payment-method","PMW configuration: the settings that bind tree to payment method",[14,478,479],{},"For a PAYM tree to produce anything, SAP documents a specific chain of Customizing (Financial Accounting → Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable → Business Transactions → Outgoing Payments → Automatic Outgoing Payments → Payment Media → Make Settings for Payment Medium Formats from Payment Medium Workbench):",[481,482,483,493],"ol",{},[135,484,485,488,489,492],{},[17,486,487],{},"Create the PMW format"," — same name as the DMEE tree, format output \"payment medium without docs\", type File, and the ",[17,490,491],{},"Mapping using DME engine"," indicator set. Setting that flag is what makes the format a DMEE format; it also surfaces a button that jumps straight into the tree.",[135,494,495,498,499,502],{},[17,496,497],{},"Assign the format to the payment method"," — in the payment method's settings, set the ",[17,500,501],{},"Use payment medium workbench"," indicator and enter the PMW format name.",[14,504,505],{},"SAP's support documentation adds the operational transactions consultants actually type: OBPM1 through OBPM4 for the format definition, note-to-payee, and variant configuration, with the payment medium program SAPFPAYM behind them — and the documented trap that after changing OBPM1\u002FOBPM2\u002FOBPM3 settings, a payment medium run that has already executed once needs report RFPAYM_RESET before the changed Customizing takes effect. For modifying delivered formats, the documented options are two: make a Z-copy of the standard tree in DMEE and change the copy's nodes, or use PMW events in OBPM3 — custom function modules at documented event points (in events 06, 21, 31 and 41 you receive the output of events 05, 20, 30 and 40 in table T_FILE_OUTPUT and can change it). Tree first, events for what the tree can't see, is the maintainable order.",[28,507,509],{"id":508},"s4hana-dmeex-and-the-end-of-classic-dmee-for-outgoing-files","S\u002F4HANA: DMEEX, and the end of classic DMEE for outgoing files",[14,511,512,513,516,517,520,521,524],{},"In S\u002F4HANA the successor transaction is ",[17,514,515],{},"DMEEX",", the Extended Data Medium Exchange Engine, and SAP's current documentation is unambiguous about the classic tool: as of the 2025 release, ",[17,518,519],{},"DMEE is obsolete for the outgoing direction",", with a documented process for migrating format trees from DMEE to DMEEX. DMEEX keeps the model — format trees, defined without ABAP coding in a graphical editor, generating flat or XML files — and its documentation currently scopes it to ",[17,522,523],{},"the PAYM tree type for outgoing files",".",[14,526,527],{},"What DMEEX adds, per its documentation, is the maintenance layer classic DMEE never had:",[132,529,530,540,550],{},[135,531,532,535,536,539],{},[17,533,534],{},"Parent–child trees",": copy a delivered tree and register the copy as a child of the original, with ",[17,537,538],{},"synchronization functions"," to distribute parent changes to children — the answer to the oldest DMEE operational problem, Z-copies drifting as SAP updates the original.",[135,541,542,545,546,549],{},[17,543,544],{},"Breakpoints on nodes",", with standard ABAP debugging during file generation, and ",[17,547,548],{},"tracepoints"," analyzed through the DMEEX Trace Tool (SAP Note 3077367; classic DMEE got its own trace tool via Note 3138271) — built for the two eternal questions, \"why is this node missing?\" and \"why is this value formatted like that?\".",[135,551,552,555],{},[17,553,554],{},"Post-processing function modules"," per format tree — run at the end of format creation, SAP's example being deletion of empty nodes.",[14,557,558],{},"If you're building new formats on S\u002F4HANA, build them in DMEEX; if you're carrying classic trees forward, the migration is a documented process, not a re-implementation.",[28,560,562],{"id":561},"what-i-couldnt-verify-so-it-isnt-above","What I couldn't verify, so it isn't above",[14,564,565],{},"Held to the same rule as the rest of the corpus — printed only if a fetched SAP page says it — three things stayed out:",[132,567,568,574,584],{},[135,569,570,573],{},[17,571,572],{},"The runtime handoff from REGUH\u002FREGUP into FPAYH\u002FFPAYP."," SAP documents both ends — the payment run writing REGUH\u002FREGUP, and PAYM trees mapping from FPAYH\u002FFPAYP\u002FFPAYHX — but none of the pages I fetched states the mechanism that fills the FPAY* structures from the payment tables. The commonly repeated formulation (\"SAPFPAYM reads REGUH\u002FREGUP and fills FPAYH\u002FFPAYP\") may well be right; I couldn't source it, so it isn't asserted above.",[135,575,576,579,580,583],{},[17,577,578],{},"SEPA_CT as \"the pain.001 tree.\""," SAP's support documentation lists SEPA_CT among DME-Engine-implemented formats, but the fetched pages don't state which pain.001 version it produces, so no version claim is made here — for the message itself, the ",[22,581,582],{"href":110},"pain.001 field reference"," covers the structure bank by bank.",[135,585,586,589],{},[17,587,588],{},"A complete tree-type catalogue."," The tree types printed (PAYM, UMS1\u002F2\u002F3, WTRE, ASLD, DEBT) are the ones SAP's outgoing-file documentation describes for FI. Other tree types exist for other components; anything I couldn't find described on a fetched page is omitted rather than listed by hearsay.",[14,591,592],{},"And the standing scope note: this reference describes classic DMEE as SAP documents it (SAP ERP EHP8, republished in the S\u002F4HANA sets) and DMEEX as S\u002F4HANA documents it. Which trees your system actually ships, and whether DMEE still opens at all, depends on release and edition — check yours before you promise a bank a format.",[594,595],"hr",{},[14,597,598],{},[91,599,600,601,604,605,524],{},"See also ",[22,602,603],{"href":97},"SAP payments output management: PMW, BCM and APM"," and the ",[22,606,607],{"href":65},"SAP treasury transaction codes reference",{"title":609,"searchDepth":610,"depth":610,"links":611},"",2,[612,613,614,615,616,617,618,619,620],{"id":30,"depth":610,"text":31},{"id":115,"depth":610,"text":116},{"id":152,"depth":610,"text":153},{"id":280,"depth":610,"text":281},{"id":406,"depth":610,"text":407},{"id":448,"depth":610,"text":449},{"id":475,"depth":610,"text":476},{"id":508,"depth":610,"text":509},{"id":561,"depth":610,"text":562},"payments",null,false,"2026-08-03","The DMEE format tree explained — node types, the mapping procedures, tree type PAYM, the FPAY* source structures, and where DMEE sits between F110 and PMW.","md",[628,631,634,637],{"question":629,"answer":630},"What is the difference between DMEE and DMEEX in SAP S\u002F4HANA?","Same job, newer engine. DMEEX (the Extended Data Medium Exchange Engine) is the S\u002F4HANA transaction for defining file formats as format trees, and SAP's documentation adds capabilities classic DMEE never had: copying a delivered tree as a child of the original with a parent–child hierarchy, synchronization functions to push parent changes to child trees, breakpoints and tracepoints on individual nodes for debugging file generation, and post-processing function modules that run at the end of format creation — for example to delete empty nodes. SAP's S\u002F4HANA 2025 documentation is blunt about the direction: classic DMEE is obsolete for the outgoing direction, and there is a documented migration process for moving format trees from DMEE to DMEEX. DMEEX currently handles the PAYM tree type for outgoing files.",{"question":632,"answer":633},"What is an atom in a DMEE format tree?","A sub-node you create under an element when one mapping rule isn't enough. SAP documents two uses: outputting more than one value into a single element, and controlling which value is output to an element based on conditions. The pattern in practice: set the element's mapping procedure to 'Own mapping (atoms)', create one atom per candidate source, give each atom its own mapping procedure and a condition, and the engine picks whichever atom's condition is met at generation time. It's how a single field in the file — a payee identifier, say — can come from different source fields depending on the payment.",{"question":635,"answer":636},"Which structures does a DMEE payment format tree read its data from?","For tree type PAYM, SAP's data mapping documentation says the FPAY* structures are what the tree type makes available, and its support documentation on modifying PMW formats names them: FPAYH, FPAYP, and FPAYHX — so the fields of these structures are what you can use in the nodes. They form the source field inventory the DMEE mapping screen offers you, alongside ABAP system fields, technical fields, and — specific to PAYM — note-to-payee fields whose behaviour depends on the Payment Medium Workbench format Customizing. The payment run's own tables are separate: F110 writes REGUH (settlement data) and REGUP (processed items) when it executes.",{"question":638,"answer":639},"Why is a node missing from the DMEE output file?","Check its conditions first, then the conditions above it. SAP's documentation is explicit that when a file is generated the engine checks each node's conditions and simply ignores the node when they aren't met — and that if a condition on an upper-level node like a segment or composite fails, all of its subnodes are skipped with it. So an element can be mapped perfectly and still vanish because a segment three levels up compared a field against the wrong constant. For systematic cases, SAP ships a DMEE Trace Tool (SAP Note 3138271, and 3077367 for DMEEX) built for exactly these questions — why a node or level is missing, or why a value arrives formatted differently than expected.",{},15,true,9.55,"\u002Fblog\u002Fsap-dmee-payment-file-format-tree","sap-treasury","sap dmee",197,"Classic DMEE as documented in SAP ERP EHP8 (Financial Accounting – General Topics), which SAP republishes in the S\u002F4HANA documentation sets; DMEEX per SAP S\u002F4HANA documentation. 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