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Controller forms - Shareholdings Opening Balance not allowing for data entry due to Dimensions

Currently controller forms does not allow users to select dimensions in the Opening Shareholdings icon. If Dimensions not used for that account, then yes values can be saved. However when Dimensions are tagged for that account, the dimensions cann...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Request to increase client -server timeout

Current client-server timeout is hardcoded to 15 minutes, as confirmed by IBM Helpdesk. The timeout setting is too short as users will get kicked out of Controller and will get the error "user xyz is logged in". Thereafter another user will have t...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Upload Historical rates

Our client would like to translate cash flow line items at a more accurate rate than just using the M, D or B rate. In order to provide them the functionality we would make use of the historical rates table. Their concern is that head office shoul...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Currency Translation Report Rounding

Currency Rates in Cognos Controller allow up to 6 decimal places to to be captured, however the Currency Translation Reports only round to 3 decimal places which is visually "incorrect" from a Report perspective. Many of my customers would prefer ...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Web Drill down details at Account level to excel for Comments at Inter Co level

Comments are available under Field 6 for counter company when clicked on ‘Open drill-down’. However, when this data is exported to excel, then these comments do not appear in excel download. Comments updated have to be referred while reviewing the...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Blank substitution lookup table - Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Cognos Controller WEB, we are creating lookup tables for import from Excel/csv-files. These import files contain rows where intercompany data has no counterpart information (blank). In Controller Classic we normally translate this blank ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Quarter to Date (QTD) Reporting Interval in report writing

Customers frequently request a quarter-to-date (QTD) interval function in report creation. Currently we use the interval of 3 when writing quarterly reports, however this is only useful when running reports on a quarterly period.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Import journals while reporting takes place in a form

This enhancement regards Error 47 "The form containing the account is locked for update" inside 'Import of External Data' report. In a reporting process countries report their data in forms (REPO) while group accounting performs adjustments in jou...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Helping manage the icons that appear for

We are a large company with heavy dependency on Cognos Controller, for our consolidation process. Since IBM cannot hold more than 4 DBs in 1 environment, we have 5 - Dev 1, 2 & 3 (2&3) being for reference and Staging and Prod. With all the...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Scheduler for extracting reportbook in Excel

During the monthly reporting period, many reportbooks must be generated in Excel (around 50). Each reportbook must be generated in separate folder.At this time, this is done manually reportbook by reportbook. For example, It can be great to use Wi...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration