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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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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

Reports Report

There is no way to pull out a report with all reports entered in Controller for both Company and Group Companies.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security on Log Reports

One is unable to apply security on the Log Reports. Although a user may be restricted and have specific have rights to certain entities, the same user can open a Data Load Log Report for all entities and therefore gain access to privileged data.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Automatically populate specification of shares in subsidiaries from Investment elimination template

If you have an integrated specification of shares in subsidiaries with an OB/CB logic and adding values on the movement accounts in the investment elimination template you can in Excel in Data Entry view in Classic click on any account in this spe...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

System Audit Log - Detailed Extract

Quarterly SOX compliance requires detail (Company, Account, Amount) found when clicking "show details" button for each modified form within System Audit Log for a given period. Currently manually opening each entry to verify amendments made by spe...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Saved window sizes should be sanity-checked when opening

User opens a dataentry form in Excel and clicks to open the Intercompany popup. A window is opened and visible in the taskbar, but the user cannot access it in any way (but it can be closed funny enough). When unticking the 'Save window size' opti...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Currently locking is available by period and by company, and not by consolidation type

In a multi consolidation type/multi group scenario implementation it is possible that due to human error a consolidation is run for a consolidation type/Group even though the numbers for that group have been finalised and as a result of this conso...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Native API connectors from IBM CCR (On Cloud) to PowerBI

It is popular today for Native API connectors for a variety of systems and understanding that an organization may not utilize solely 1 or 2 systems from a principal. Hence, the need for native API connectors between various principals. Such would ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Company ending date should not impact user rights

We have noticed that when setting an ending date in the company structure, the company is automatically removed from the security rights. This is clearly a misbehaviour since you still need access to the company to view historical data.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Movement Account Audit Log

During 'system audit' the auditors are expecting to see a User Id assigned to all structural changes made within the chart of accounts. The user ID is populated when updated via the Maintain Account process but NOT when the Generate Movement Accou...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration