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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Controller web intercompany reconcile

At present all liability balances are shown as positive in the intercompany. This means matched intercompany balances show as unmatched. This is a key part of the appeal of the Controller web which would be extremely useful for our subsidiaries to...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Track changes in structure/row definition/column definition/Axes for user defined reports in controller

We need to track the changes of structure/row definition/column definition/Axes and report changes for user defined reports
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Using accounts in forms without having the form being considered reported in the Command Center

The company uses several forms to input on IFRS accounts. In other forms, the IFRS amounts are broken down by the user to other accounts and dimensions for disclosure purposes. In these disclosure forms, the amounts on the IFRS accounts are shown ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Command Center: Monitoring form input progress at REPO level

The company uses the command center in Cognos Controller to monitor the form input status and progress by entity during the closing process. If input is done in a form, the form status changes from ‘missing' to ‘ reported'. However, the form s...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Increase company code length from 6 to 9

current controller company code is limited to 6 characters. user has multiple consolidation types in which have used up alot of the alphanumeric combinations as group codes between consolidation types should be different. When it comes to group re...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Reasons for FAP structure updates

Need to identify the specific reason why a FAP update structures process needs to be run. At the moment, reasons are in general categories such as "security" and cross-referencing the change in FAP with the trigger event in Controller is difficult.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Command Center: Alternate/default e-mail "Sender Address"

Within Command Center, the E-mail Notification feature allows for "Receiving of e-mail confirmations" which effectively sends the confirmation e-mail to the user from the user (due to the address defined within Maintain > Rights > Users). Th...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Usage of the TLS1.0 protocol is unsafe

A customer has had an audit. From this audit it has ermerged that use of the TLS1.0 protocol is unsafe. Yet Cognos depends on this protocol on several fronts. Is there a solution for this?
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Transfer G/L journals data from TM1 to Controller

Request to push data from an external application (e.g. Cognos TM1 10.1) into Cognos Controller 10.1, in form of General Ledger journal entries (which means journal types are specified). Currently there is only "REPO" type data push functionality ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

copy/transfer company journals to another journal

Currently, a company journal can not be copied or transferred to a new company journal. We would recommend to foresee this functionality to avoid re-input/re-import of company journals when you restructure the number of company journals.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration