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Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

Use of J type intercompany with period looping import specs in Controller Web

For Controller Web import specs with looping by period, there is no ability to define the start column for the transaction amount field. If customers use J type intercompany accounts for their actual imports, we would expect them to want to use th...
1 day ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web

Schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web Functionality to schedule FAP initial publish in FAP Web interface. Additionally, there shoudl be a possiblitiy to receive a success or no success notification per mail.
about 8 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Possibility to configure more than one data source and data mart in FAP Web

At them moment (Version 11.2.1) you can have only one Controller source database and the Add New button for datamart is enabled only if there is no Datamart created. You can have only one Controller source Datamart. We need several data sources an...
about 8 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Change number of lines displayed for FAP log in FAP Web

The screen solution in FAP Web logs is very bad. Only four lines are displayed and one has to scroll and flip a lot to find something. Changing zoom percentage of the web page does not help.
about 9 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Schedule FAP structure update in FAP Web, allowing a specific selection

Schedule FAP structure update in FAP Web Functionality to schedule FAP update structure via FAP Web interface. This should be possible for a certain selection, i.e., the user can decide, whether the structure update should consider only user right...
about 9 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Please add notification when user enters invalid date from the past in investment register in Controller Web

When the LOCK_XLL_SHAREHOLD flag is enabled in Controller Classic, the system will restrict all edit and create operations on investment detail transactions in the past months. as of version 11.2.1. However, the user does not get any message. An i...
about 9 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

"Condense xacclock table" in Database Optimize needs to take care of table xopen

"Condense xacclock table" in Database Optimize needs to take care of table xopen. (period locking by company) This should be updated to andra ‘T’ for the respective entries that were deleted from table xacclock. Otherwize, it still looks as if The...
about 10 hours ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Data Overlap in the Lookup Table in IBM Controller, Batch queue > queue>maintain view

The issue happened due to the data overlap in the lookup table in IBM Controller due to which SAP_Stage data in lookup table i.e. Data import specification or in Maintain> Batch queue manage view by using the ADM id which shows the status faile...
6 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Detailed Status and Logging for API-Based Data Loads in Controller

Current Challenge In the Classic Client, detailed log reports are available for data uploaded to Controller. Similarly, Controller Web provides status and detailed logs for consolidations, manual web imports, and a summary of Classic imports, incl...
4 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

"Condense xacclock table" in Database Optimize should not run where one or more submissions are open for the chosen period/actuality combination

"Condense xacclock table" in Database Optimize should not run where one or more submissions are open for the chosen period/actuality combinations up to and including the period chosen. It would be good if the user was presented with a message deta...
27 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration