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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Allow security menu group rights to be imported

Customer received internal audit comment with >4000 comments for their existing 41 users in Controller and needs to make adjustments to the security group limitations. However, it is too tedious to edit manually. They are requesting enhancement...
13 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Controller Classic Transfer / Export Structures - make Controller Web Import Specs and Lookups selection specific

Instead of having to import all Controller Web Import Specifications and/or all Web Lookup tables, it would be helpful if you could select specific Import Specifications and Lookup tables. (especially as Transfer/Export Structures is IBM's work ar...
27 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Variance analysis needed within Controller Web reporting

The selection of column content for reporting is prescriptive. You have to chose individual actualities, periods, etc. This means you can present say Actual data against Budget data. You cannot however then add a new column that then presents the ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Ability to turn off the 'Submission deadlines' view/tile from Controller Web 'Home' page

Some larger customers have expressed a wish to have the ability to turn off the 'Submission deadlines' view in Controller Web, as their deadlines are set per company/group of companies, per period and actuality, so would rather not have that view ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Requirement for a report that can list for cognos controller of the number of new users and users with changed access rights for a defined time span that can be altered

Requirement for a report that can list for cognos controller of the number of new users and users with changed access rights for a defined time span that can be altered. The report should contain what access rights were removed or added for the us...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Need a function for excel link and reports for the "Country or Region" code seen in Company structure.

In the Company Structure “Maintain > Company Structure > Define…” there is a field “Country or Region”. The customer requires a there a function to retrieve this information in Controller reports or the Controller Excel link. IBM have confir...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Commentary enablement against Controller Web reporting

In supplement to BACC-I-548, can Controller Web reporting also seek to improve the functionality for commentary capture. Users typically want to provide commentary on Controller at a summarised level, not an account entry level. For example, comme...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

'on no match default' functionality (for import specifications) in Controller Web

Customer already use import specs and CSV files to import data into Controller classic. However, they would like to use Controller Web instead. The customer relies on the classic functionality " on no match default " to get their classic impor...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Print Intercompany reconciliation from Controller Web

Possible to print Intercompany reconciliation report from CCR Web on a company level.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Possibility to use threshold for Real Diff. (=transaction currency amount) in IC reports

When running the Group/Reconcile/Intercompany Balances Report we are only interested in the Real difference, i.e. the difference in the reported amount between a debtor and a creditor in the transaction currency . The IC report includes however bo...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration