QFX imports for Investment accounts

[Al]

 "but I did notice that you do not mention whether it is possible for you to 
manually correct those imported transactions to the correct accounts"
I tried to "edit" this new account and point it at my existing account.... I get a "ACCOUNT ALREADY EXISTS" pop up and it fails. Reasonable.  I can only seem to cut and paste the transaction data and then delete the imported account, however I do not get the commission detail  (doesn't exist) so I need to adjust the entry to include same. This seems odd as I am pretty certain that data is actually in the QFX file because Quicken puts this data in its transaction file after import. 

After all this a complete manual entry seems easier but I am used to Quicken and it has no problem with QFX imports and investment accounts.  Brokerage accounts almost universally use QFX or CSV,   QIF is not available.  I took a cursory look at CSV and it seemed chaotic so I did not pursue. If CSV is an viable option, then I could use some guidance because what I encountered looked unworkable. As mentioned before, Bank accounts and QFX are flawless so I was expecting the same for Investments accounts. .  

ThanksAl

      From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
 To: gnucash-user at gnucash.org 
 Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 6:34 PM
 Subject: Re: QFX imports for Investment accounts
   
On 10/14/2015 2:47 PM, Al wrote:
>  I am unable to get QFX imports to interact correctly with my existing
>  investments accounts.
>
>  Example. I have under Assets---Investments---Brokerage Accounts---Stocks------
>  "MY BROKERAGE COMPANY NAME" ; under which I have an account for each Stock (for
>  example Gnu Business Machines),  Within this account I have 2
>  historical transactions (BUY/SELL, Imported via QIF)) and the current view
>  shows.....GNU Business Machines  0 GBM...... which is correct, at
>  least the data is..
>
> My QFX file has a Buy Trade for GBM and when imported I get a New Account
> Window showing GBM as a new Account, Type= stock, Parent Account= Brokerage
> Accounts. I can change the Parent Account to indicate where my existing GBM
> account lives, but no matter, when I OK the import I have a "New" GBM account
> with the correct trade info per this QFX file. So now I have two GBM
> accounts.  Another Import generates a another New Account as a sub account of
> the prior import's new account. .  So every import creates a new account
>  rather than adding new entries to my original GBM stock account and every new
> account is a sub account of the prior import containing transaction data.
>
> I cannot seem to solve this issue on my own, your help will be greatly appreciated.
> Final comment. I also have a separate file with Bank accounts and I have no problems
> with importing QFX files.  New data is entered where old date lives and life
> is good.
>
>  Thanks  Al
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Al,
I do not use the OFX/QFX import for investment transactions, but I did 
notice that you do not mention whether it is possible for you to 
manually correct those imported transactions to the correct accounts in 
a manner similar to fixing a grocery store or gasoline station 
transaction that was incorrectly guessed by GnuCash.  It seems to me 
that should work for investment transactions too.

David C
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