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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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FAP Initial Publish Process Improvement

Currently, every time that FAP goes into Error State (which has been happening more often than we would like), we have to start an Initial Publish to put it back up, which takes a lot of time to complete (from 2 to 5 hours in some cases), and it s...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Automated Copy forward opening balances

Following on the automation theme. Users have requested an automated copy forward opening balances feature
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Possible to fetch data from the acquisition register in standard forms, using dimensions in columns.

Today it's not possible to fetch data from the acquisition register when the form is built with dimensions in columns. Controller Web does support standard forms with dimensions in columns and in later versions of CCR Web it's not possible to repo...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Parallell hierarchies in extended dimensions

Today you can just have one hierarchy when it comes to the 4 different extended dimensions. That is a problem when we compete with competitors. Due to that the storing is on the lowest level couldn´t it be possible to have parallell hierarchies? ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Feature to scheduled report to export in Cognos Controller

Can we have feature in Cognos Controller to export the data and possible way to scheduled the job to automate this manual export file in Cognos Controller.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Use existing import specifications built in Controller classic also in Controller web

Add the possibility to use existing import specifications built in Controller classic also in Controller web.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Time frequency missing while Scheduling Jobs - hourly timestamp missing in Cognos Controller

The client would like to reduce the monthly closing process step where they order Consolidation By status jobs on batch. The client would like to run Consolidation By Status in Batch on an hourly basis. For that the client will need to manually or...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Add commonly used Excel functionalities into Cognos Web

It would be useful to add commonly used excel functionality (Summation, Variance calculation, % calculation, reconciliation etc.) in Cognos Web version for both the free forms as well as standard forms. This will save time as we can do the calcula...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Extension summation of accounts

The summation for accounts is limited to three summations. It would be highly desirable if the summation would be extended up to 5 or 6 summation accounts. The IFRS standard setter plan to introduce a new structure for the profit & loss and th...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Reschedule multiple batch jobs (multi-select) at the same time

Our clients use Maintain -> Batch Queue -> Manage in order to reschedule batch jobs in Cognos Controller. They reschedule them to be executed immediately. The jobs are put in a queue which is fine and executed as configured (1 by 1). Unfo...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration