Cancellation of a confirmed payment batch

Hi,

Oracle AP doesn't allow to cancel a payment batch once it has been confirmed. The only thing you can do is to cancel the individual payments, which can be done if there are only a few of them but say your batch contains 1,000 payments it will be time-consuming.

Does anyone know the reason behind this feature (not being able to cancel after confirmation stage) ?

Say your stack of 1,000 checks burnt overnight how could you easily cancel and re-issue your payment batch without having to cancel each individual payment to release the invoices for another payment ?

Thanks in advance for your help!