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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Support for Windows Authentication between Controller and SQL Server

Database administrators more and more frequently disables SQL Server Logins and prefer to use Windows Authentication between server applications and Microsoft SQL Server database servers. In Controller, it would be nice to have turn-key support to...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

MJE Park & Post: include the approval step prior to actually posting the Journal

Currently, journals are posted as soon as the user submits it, and the approval is done after the journal has already affected the Financial statements. In order to reduce the risk of unauthorized journals affecting the numbers, we would like that...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Controller Web - Automatic refresh of Counterpart information, without having to manually press 'Refresh' button

Customer has found that (in Controller Web) the values/entries inside 'Counterpart' are not updated in real-time. This means that the information/figures displayed are wrong! ++++++++++++++++++++++ Example: When looking at company #1102, inside th...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

System Audit Log for tracking submissions

Users would like to refer to a log on the changes in the status of the submissions for a particular period in the Controller Web. The information required is: -The time and date of the change in submission status (ie. missing, ready etc) -The enti...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Customisation of reconciliation reports

Cognos should allow customisation of the reconciliation reports ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' and 'Intercompany Balance' reports) to include the space for sign-off, name and designation of the preparer and reviewer/approver, along with the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Capability to provide review comments against individual analysis/forms

It would be helpful if the Controller allows the reviewing entity/reviewer to provide review comments against individual submissions (forms or analysis within the form, where applicable) reported by the subsidiaries in Cognos. The reporting entity...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Locking of account codes to prevent data import

Currently, the Cognos allows data entry into account codes that have been locked for data entry when using the "export data" option in cognos controller link (excel add-in). The system should not allow the data to be imported (neither through exce...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

RDS on SQL Server support for Cognos Controller

We plan to upgrade Cognos Controller from 10.3 to 10.4.2 as version 10.3 is reaching its EOL. For this upgrade, on Database side we look for option to go with AWS RDS for SQL server. I have logged a case TS005705990 to check if RDS SQL DB is suppo...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Cognos Controller on Cloud to keep users Favorites on next login. (to retain data on the rich tiers)

The current design of Controller on Cloud is not to retain data on the rich tiers. This means that users personally added Favorites are gone on next login.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

When setting up daily consolidations there should be button to press if you want the consolidations to run every hour

It will save time for the consolidators. We have 5 different actualities that is run every hour during the days of closing and even if I uses the option to set up daily consolidations I need to create 5 consolidations (as we consolidate 5 actualit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration