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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Time stamped account hierarchy

Similar to the organizational dimension within Controller, Klarna would like to be able to create a time stamped account hierarchy in order to encompass changes to the account structure over time without affecting historical account structures, i....
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Brief of AM

Last year AM held a project whose objective was to configure the consolidation structures in order to obtain correct results at different consolidation subgroups, alas many problems arose since in AM’s company structure a subgroup belongs to many ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Unlock All Periods

In the Maintian -Period Locking – Change Multi Period Locking there is an option to "Unlock All Periods". How can we dsable this functionality for all users except ADM? This will minimise the risk of periods being left open for data entry.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web should be able to run on Oracle

We are running the Cognos Controller 10.4.0 on oracle database12C release 1 but unfortunately that the controller web is not support on Oracle database. Therefore, we cannot use controller web at all even for the users in the oversea who is not ne...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Load to 'More Information' fields for Companies

I would like a method to load data to the 'More Information' fields in the Company structure. Now that there are 30 fields available I would like to use them to store information my company has in spreadsheets and sql tables. Having to manual...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Created by currency conversion using D-rate, converted values exist to roll over to Retained earnings next year

For automatically generated journals type: “Created by currency conversion using D-rate, converted values exist” which do not have values in LC, and have values only in legal currency, to implement a mechanism that helps to roll retained earnings ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 5 Not under consideration

Access to NRTR_DATAMART

Before Upgrading from SQL to DB2 we had access to a similar table and setup an event to run when the Strcture code wasn't 75 (ok) when sending to FAP. when the code isn't 75 this stops the trickle feed to FAP from controller causing issue when rec...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Correct License Agreement report for showing Active Users when using SSO

The License Agreement report does not show the correct number of Active Users when using SSO. Since SSO is the most common used setting for Controller, this is a defect and must be corrected.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Is a defect

Company Structure Report

Would it be possible under Maintain / Company Structure / Report to add the company short name as additional information?
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration