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Controller Web Exclude certain IC journals from Reconciliation tab

Elimination of intercompany revenues are often configured as a "one-legged" elimination. That is selling company reports an intercompany revenue. This is then eliminated and also booked against a cost account. The buying company do report an inter...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Unlock all periods should be moved/removed

The "unlock all periods" checkmark in "change multi period locking" menu is too easy to press on accident, it should be moved to a different menu or there should be set an additional security measure where additional access should be given to be a...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Possibility to use threshold for Real Diff. (=transaction currency amount) in IC reports

When running the Group/Reconcile/Intercompany Balances Report we are only interested in the Real difference, i.e. the difference in the reported amount between a debtor and a creditor in the transaction currency . The IC report includes however bo...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Lock direct form access for the correction of journals in Controller Web Reconciliation tab

For reconciliation errors ‘Between Accounts’ and ‘Opening Balances’, users are able to correct a journal reconciliation error by opening a form and entering an amount to correct the reconciliation error. This amount, as entered by form, appears in...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Allowing Calculation Accounts to by run by Closing Versions

When running Calculation Reports, Users need to select journal types one by one manually. They would prefer to be able to select all the journals per Closing version instead so that they are sure nothing is mis-selected or left out. This report is...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Database management between IBM Controller SaaS environments

New functionality for database backup and asset restore via administration on Controller Web works great for the environment you are connected to, say replicating Live (CCR01) to Test (CCR02) on the Production environment. This functionality does ...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

Correction needed for Actuality selection when running import data with loop on Web

On the upload tab, when running import data with loop enabled on Web, you are presented with the actuality name from the context of the location you are connected against. However, when you select the drop down menu button next to the actuality na...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect

Increase timeout for 'Delete Data change details older than (days)', when trimming large XDBAUDIT table

When customers have very large amounts of information inside their data audit log (i.e. when their XDBAUDIT SQL table gets very large) then the button "Delete" does not work (inside "Maintain - System Audit Log - Configuration"). Specifically: T...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

Improved admin of user rights

The administration of user rights, with a great number of users, is very time consuming. With many users, having more or less the same company rights but with minor differences you need to set up and maintain one company security group per user. I...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Keep company in security rights after end-date

When selling/likquidating a company, you set an end-date in the company structure. As a result, the company will disapear from all company security groups. No user will be able to select and see historic values for that company until you have manu...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration