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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Suport Multiple data marts in Controller FAP fully

A customer publishes several datamarts from a single source. Structures are updated in Controller and the user goes into FAP administration and tries to update structures on all datamarts concurrently. Sometimes this will fail because the temporar...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Under review

Ignore opening balances on import

Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

ControllerWeb - Reconciliation optimisation

Currently, the limitation concerns only the “IC reconciliation” (see – “Largest Difference Accepted During Reconciliation”) and NOT the reconciliation between Assets and Liabilities… Therefore, could you add a field in order to reconcile with a ma...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Add 'net accounting of intercompany balances' option in standard report

Applicable to IBM Cognos Controller v 11 -> In standard report 'group / reconcile / intercompany balances', there is a default option 'net accounting of intercompany balances'. Such option doesn't exist in the standard report 'company / reconci...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

Index tables in FAP database for better performance of an IP

We tested the time taken for an IP in the PRD environment. In SQL we saw an extreme cost in memory for select queries that the process does in table nrtr_companyrelation We noticed, that this table is not indexed. The whole IP took 2,5h, of which ...
8 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review