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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Controller Web Open projects on company level

Reporting units has to see projects referring to periods and actualities that they have finish. When a reporting unit has locked their company they still see the project as open when they enter Controller web. This becomes most annoying during per...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

CCR Web limitation on rows

1) Forms enabled with 2 and more extended dimensions should not affect the number of rows display on screen.2) Row definition should have adequate spaces to display account name properly.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Limited user rights for Actualities

Is it possible to add within the user rights limitations for actualities in Cognos Controller?
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Replication of user logs across all instances when signing onto Controller SaaS

Controller SaaS is currently presented through IBM Citrix with automated load balancing applied between Citrix servers when users connect. This results in user log information being stored against different servers, which in turn creates an incons...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Security issue of data in various Actualities

Example from our company. We have two separate Departments, IFRS and Budgeting, that use Cognos Controller simultaneously. The Departments use the same account and company structures, but different Actualities (AC –Actual, BU – Budgeting). The...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Historical rates in a new consolidation type.

When you define a new Consolidation type it´s always very tricky to get the right opening balances on Etyp 1 transactions. It would be so much easier if Controller could get the closing balance amounts from a selected consolidation type when you ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Lock direct form access for the correction of journals in Controller Web Reconciliation tab

For reconciliation errors ‘Between Accounts’ and ‘Opening Balances’, users are able to correct a journal reconciliation error by opening a form and entering an amount to correct the reconciliation error. This amount, as entered by form, appears in...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
5 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Controller Web support for non-stable networks

In this age of the pandemic, more people are working from home, and are thus connected via networks that are not 100% stable. In Controller Web you tend to get an error message if the websock communication is broken, and then you will have to relo...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Journal Report to generate report for all levels of the selected Groups

User is required to generate report for all subgroups by selecting one subgroup at a time and generate the report. To include option to generate entries for all subgroups under the selected TOP group.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration