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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Blank substitution lookup table - Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Cognos Controller WEB, we are creating lookup tables for import from Excel/csv-files. These import files contain rows where intercompany data has no counterpart information (blank). In Controller Classic we normally translate this blank ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Import from Staging Area - ability to import the same "file" several times

It would be very useful to be able to more easy rerun batchjob/importing a file from staging area. After looking at the Log report - after one import from Staging Area - it would be good to be able to rerun the report. For example if the period wa...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Load consolidations into batch queue

Load scheduling of consolidations into batch queue.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

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

Enhance the security/usage of batch jobs

As more and more customers need improved and automatic data processes, we use the "Import from Staging Table" functionality. When we create a batch job we specify the user to run the batch job, but everybody is able to execute the job, which does ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Controller FAP to continue do IP even due CAMID is missing from controller database

The FAP process for IP should not stop for a error if a user is not found in authentication source, or the XCAMUSER table is missing values for CAMID. The FAP process should jump over that user account and continue with the rest of the accounts. I...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release