MT940 import not working

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

You might need to ask on the AqBanking lists about this.  We just
use their code so any parse errors are theirs, not ours.

Good Luck,

-derek

erik <erik.kars at home.nl> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have the very same problem with importing MT940 files as was reported
> some time ago (please refer below). The console output says: "Error in
> SWIFT data: no tag name". I use aqbanking-2.3.2. Does anyone know what I
> am doing wrong, or has this not been fixed??
>
> Best regards,
>
> Erik
>
>
>
> MT940 import does not work
> L.W. van Braam van Vloten lucas2 at dds.nl 
> Sun Sep 24 17:43:28 EDT 2006 
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> ________________________________________________________________________
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the 'swift' replies.
>
> In the meantime I recompiled gnucash with --enable-debug (I don't know 
> if it makes any difference). I start it from a command prompt and try to 
> import an MT940 file (which fails), and then I quit the program. I get 
> the following messages in the console:
>
>
> lucas at isaak:~$ gnucash
> gnucash: [M] "Found Finance::Quote version ""1.11"
>
> (gnucash:7339): gnome-vfs-modules-WARNING **: Could not initialize inotify
>
> 3:2006/09/24 22-50-56:aqbanking(7339):swift.c:  282: Error in SWIFT 
> data: no tag name
>   String size is 21:
>   0000: 41 42 4e 41 4e 4c 32 41 0a 39 34 30 0a 41 42 4e ABNANL2A.940.ABN
>   0010: 41 4e 4c 32 41                                  ANL2A
> 3:2006/09/24 22-50-56:aqbanking(7339):swift.c:   97: Error importing data
> lucas at isaak:~$
>
>
> I will send an MT940 file that I received from my Dutch bank to whom 
> requests it (the data is from my private bank account, it is a bit too 
> confidential for a public mailing list :).
>
> The version of aqbanking I use is the standard version in Debian Etch 
> (at least on September 24, 2006). The version number is 2.0.0. The 
> program aqbanking-config gives the following info:
>
>
> aqbanking-config --includes: -I/usr/include
> aqbanking-config --libraries: -L/usr/lib -laqbanking
> aqbanking-config --vmajor: 2
> aqbanking-config --vminor: 0
> aqbanking-config --vpatchlevel: 0
> aqbanking-config --vbuild: 0
> aqbanking-config --vtag: stable
>
> Is this enough information for you?
>
> Kind regards,
> Lucas
>
>
> Martin Preuss wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Sunday 24 September 2006 22:46, Christian Stimming wrote:
>>   
>>> Am Sonntag, 24. September 2006 22:17 schrieb L.W. van Braam van Vloten:
>>>   thought the HBCI specifications have a section about SWIFT MT940
>>> somewhere in the appendix, see
>>> http://www.hbci-zka.de/english/specification/engl_2_2.htm (Part D). E.g.
>>> the first characters in the file should be ":20:..."
>>>     
>> [...]
>>
>> Google ist your friend, "SWIFT MT940" should give you some results. I don have 
>> example files either, but when I developed the SWIFT importer plugin for 
>> AqBanking I had plenty of SWIFT MT940 files (because they are transmitted via 
>> HBCI).
>>
>> The importer is quite tolerant (at least in later versions of AqBanking), 
>> because we needed this to import some Swiss MT940 files...
>>
>> However, you could send this file to me in private and I could check it (and, 
>> if necessary, adapt the importer).
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Martin
>>
>>   
>
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