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Latest Discussions

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    E700 - minority interest

    By: Tor Olav Bye-Andersen , 3 days ago

    hi Does anyone have a good way to get more transparancy into the calculations that are made in the Control Table E700 for minority interests - Journalnr. 90? If I try to drill on the balance I can't get any further than Automatic Journal - 90. Sometimes ...

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    "The request failed with HTTP status 404:Not Found" ...

    By: Anja Kuhar , 18 days ago

    Hello, we are in the process of upgrading IBM Controller to the latest version 11.0.1. After we finished the installation and launched the Controller, we get the following error: Have any of you perhaps encountered such an error before? Thank ...

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    Historical rates - Investment register calculation ...

    By: Yolani van der Merwe , 3 months ago

    Hi All. We have a group where we use the standard model / investment register, but for the subgroup I am not sure why it calculates differently. The IN elimination is from control table E105 and the MI from E700. - Added the historical rates to ...

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    RE: Year end copy of movement accounts

    By: Kerstin Kernwein , 3 months ago

    Hi Renan, yes, the movements are normally not copied over year end, the system should roll them to the opening balance account. Just do not tick the "without year ending rules", then it should work. You can find the manual at IBM: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-controller/11.0.1 ...

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    Year end copy of movement accounts

    By: Renan Pettinelli , 3 months ago

    Hi all, hope you can help me with this, i recently joined a company that uses Controller and i have very little support for this system here. in the Company Journals, I am trying to avoid all my movement accounts from being copied from year end to ...

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    RE: Import/Export Comments in Cognos Controller

    By: Kerstin Kernwein , 9 months ago

    Hi, If I remember correct this should be possible through the web-interface, but not sure if it is live yet. ------------------------------ Kerstin Kernwein ------------------------------

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Latest Blogs

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    It’s time to start planning your Controller on Cloud upgrade

    By: PAUL Allen one month ago

    We know our clients are busy, so we wanted to provide ample notice that all environments must be upgraded from 10.4.x to 11.x by the end of 2024. We have made significant progress with version 11. In addition to many new features in Controller Web, ...

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