Ignored Groups of Transactions from Investment Account

[David Reiser]

On Jan 12, 2012, at 12:37 PM, jrj127 wrote:

> I cannot pinpoint my problem to GnuCash or AqBanking so I thought I would
> start with this forum.  I searched for this issue but did not see it
> anywhere on Google.  I am evaluating GnuCash and KMyMoney to replace
> Quicken.  I have a 401k account with Fidelity NetBenefits and finally got
> the OFX connection to work.  I am able to download transactions from
> Fidelity Investments accounts but not NetBenefits (they are different
> servers).
> 
> My setup:
> Kubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Oncelot)
> gnucash-2.4.7-1
> kmymoney-4.5.3-2
> libaqbankingdata-5.0.14-1
> libgwenhywfar60-4.1.0
> 
> I turned on the OFX logging for GnuCash (I didn't know how to debug with
> KMyMoney) and received these messages from my NetBenefits account:
> 
> * 07:37:08  WARN <aqbanking> g_invtranlist.c:  119: Ignoring group [BUYMF]
> * 07:37:08  WARN <aqbanking> g_invtranlist.c:  119: Ignoring group
> [REINVEST]
> * 07:37:08  WARN <aqbanking> g_invtranlist.c:  119: Ignoring group [SELLMF]
> * 07:37:08  WARN <aqbanking> g_invpos.c:  124: Ignoring group [MEMO]

Aqbanking does not yet handle securities transactions.

> 
> No transactions were posted into my ledger after this online update.  Is
> this a limitation of the AqBanking OFX libraries or of GnuCash itself?  To
> me, it looks like the open source alternatives are not ready for replacing
> online updates of investment accounts with stocks, mutual funds, etc.  Is
> this a correct assumption?  If true, I will have to keep using Quicken until
> the investment account support matures.  I want complete automatic online
> updates without parsing or manually importing files.

At this point you would have to manually import ofx files with securities transactions. Libofx handles the import duties, and it does handle many types of investment transactions.

> 
> Thanks for any feedback,
> Jared

Dave
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