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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Including Range of Dates on "One Time Only" option for Batch Queue.

The Users would be greatly benefitted as scheduling the "One Time Only" option allows them to select it for only one date at a time.The Daily option cannot be Used as it has shown errors earlier.
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Automatically populate specification of shares in subsidiaries from Investment elimination template

If you have an integrated specification of shares in subsidiaries with an OB/CB logic and adding values on the movement accounts in the investment elimination template you can in Excel in Data Entry view in Classic click on any account in this spe...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Details for User Creation Date

Auditors asking about the User Creation date. Have checked the xuser table but it is reflecting the last changed date (eg. change of password) rather than creation.
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

System Audit Log - Detailed Extract

Quarterly SOX compliance requires detail (Company, Account, Amount) found when clicking "show details" button for each modified form within System Audit Log for a given period. Currently manually opening each entry to verify amendments made by spe...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

provide Index status between CCR database and FAP to enable customer to decide if we need to reset the data publish

Currently there are many instances where the data is not fully published, especially when the new structures are published in controller, this leads to data consistency problem in report. So the users does not know when to reset the trickle publis...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

More user-friendly trial balance with drilldown report when you have a comprehensive dimension structure

See attached document. Our users are impacted every month.
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Reporting status visible in intercompany reconciliaton (controller web)

It would be nice to see in the intercompany reconciliation tab of Controller Web the reporting status of the counterparts. For example all the amounts will appear as differences , even when the counterpart has not started the input, so it is not a...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Submit sub-groups

In Cognos Controller it's possible to submit (close) company reporting for a specific closing version, defined in general configuration. In larger groups next step is often, closing of groups/subgroups (including other journal types than the compa...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Controller Web error handling (with relation to invalid actualities / submissions)

With current version of Controller (v11), if you have a 'rogue' (invalid) submission (where it refers to an actuality that has been deleted in the past, so no longer exists) then it is impossible to launch Controller Web. Specifically, as soon ...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect

Allow IET changes to be reflected in System Audit Log

Currently, in System Audit Log the user can view executed changes in Investment Elimination Template (IET) only in function 'Consolidation with Status'=>Acquisition Elimination. There is no other function in System Audit Log which allows to sel...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration