[Kmymoney-devel] OFX Madness

[aga]

On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:16:30 -0400
Jack <ostroffjh at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I'm starting a new thread for this, because I think it's going to
> take a bit of effort to figure out this mess - and we probably only
> need the final conclusion in the bug report itself, not all the
> interim stuff. My main question right now is whether we can come up
> with any plan of attack on this - we seem to have a number of
> attempts to map accounts failing with different unhelpful error
> messages, from a variety of institutions, with no help from those
> institutions.  Some of these mappings were thought to have worked
> previously.  Other than continuing to try with each of my accounts, I
> don't quite now what else to do.
> 
> Is there any chance we could get some help from the libofx team?
> I'm not even sure right now what we would ask of them.
> 
> In terms of one more specific example, today I realized that one of
> my Merrill Lynch accounts was already mapped.  (I haven't been using  
> online update because of the issues of mixing cash and investment  
> transactions in the same account, but I'll leave that for another  
> rant.)

If the rant doesn't fix the problem, don't forget that, if all else
fails, the CSV plugin is available, free!!  It can handle that type of
mix, at least to the extent your sample file demonstrated. :-))

Allan

> I just did an on-line update, and it worked fine.  I then  
> unmapped the account, and when trying to re-map it, I get
> 
> <OFX><SIGNONMSGSRSV1><SONRS><STATUS><CODE>2000<SEVERITY>ERROR<MESSAGE>Please  
> attempt your login again. If you continue to have difficulty, please  
> call 1.800.MERRILL  
> (637.7455).</STATUS><DTSERVER>20110824170052.722[-4:EDT]<LANGUAGE>ENG<FI><ORG>Merrill  
> Lynch&Co., Inc.<FID>5550</FI></SONRS></SIGNONMSGSRSV1></OFX>
> 
> which is what I got earlier trying to map my one unmapped ML account.
> 
> I spent a while on the phone with Merrill Lynch this afternoon.  The  
> best he was able to tell me is that this error usually shows up when  
> using an incorrect name or password.  However, despite the fact that
> I don't use Quicken, I managed to get him to escalate the call - so  
> hopefully someone with more specific information about their OFX  
> handling will look at it, but probably not for several days.  In  
> addition, he said that what he was able to see in their logs was
> that all my attempts at connections were listed as successful, but
> he couldn't tell me why if it was successful, it gave me an error to
> try again.
> 
> One other interesting thing - the existing mapping uses Quicken
> Windows 2008 (QWIN 1700 from the log) which should not work, since by
> agreement with Intuit, they only support the current and two previous
> versions. I suspect their logic for for serving transactions for a
> stated account is different from that for providing a list of
> accounts.  I have not yet tried changing this within the kmy file to
> see if it affects my ability to download transactions.
> 
> One more question - are all these recent failures in the US, or are  
> there any elsewhere?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Jack
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