IBM Cognos 8 Planning

Understanding the Reconciliation job

You may have two separate versions of the application, namely a development model or application and a production model or application. A discrepancy between the two can occur when you have made changes, for example, adding a few new e.List items or importing actual from the general ledger system to the model, in the development model and have not run the GTP to reflect those changes in the production model. Kicking off the GTP process moves the development changes to production behind the scenes. It fires up an admin job called "Reconciliation". This job reconciles the development model with the production model and ensures that the copy of the application that the users will see on the web is up-to-date. ...