Title
Freeze Budget Data

Purpose
This program takes a snapshot of the budget data and conserves it inanother version (frozen version). You use this program to document thebudget data of a version on a particular date.
You can make note of the date when the budget data was frozen using theshort text name of the frozen version.

Prerequisites
You have to choose a version that is exclusively used as a BCS:Frozen Version. You can set this in the Customizing of FM inthe IMG activity Edit Versions.

Features
All budget or released data of table FMBDT matching the selectioncriteria specified is read and copied to a frozen version.
Note that:

• Any budget or released or statistical data already existing for the
given selection in the frozen version will be overwritten.

• The program does not perform any checks on the validity or consistency
of the copied budget data.

• The resulting data in a frozen version cannot be changed afterwards with
any other application.
You can either run the program as a test run or an update run.Background processing is also possible.

Selection
You have to specify the FM area, budget and / or release, the budgetcategory, the fiscal year and the corresponding years of casheffectivity (if defined), as well as the source and target versions(frozen version).
The FM account assignments taken into account can be limited by usingselection options.

Output
The program generates a detailed list with the results of the programrun if the corresponding option was chosen. The detailed list containsthe following information:


• FM account assignment elements, such as the funds center or commitment
item.

• Workflow status


• Year of cash effectivity
(if defined)

• Budgeting process


• Budget type

If errors occur, an application log is generated and displayed.