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Data exported should be restricted to the Form selected for both Reported Values & Journals

When exporting data via Transfer>Export Data, we can restrict accounts for the data exported for Reported Values via the selected Form. However the accounts are not restricted for any Manual Journals. In our scenario, we are exporting from a da...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Missing support for Microsoft SQL server 2025

When will SQL Server 2025 be supported as Database in Cognos Controller (CCR)? As of today SQL server 2022 is most recent listed in clarity reports for CCR 11.1.1 Customers upgrading to most recent Windows environments are asking for SQL 2025 supp...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Print Journal report excluding statistical accounts

In the Group - Reports - Journals menu you could print a journals report selecting specific account(s). Customers would prefer to be able to select accounts by account type. Consequently, you would be able to print a journal report, excluding stat...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Enable Global Capacity Limits in HostFactory with Configurable Requestor-Level Control

Background: The CVA environment comprises of two application types: Under /cva parent Consumer – must run exclusively on on-demand instances. Under /cvaSpot parent Consumer – can run workload on both on-demand and spot instances. To support this a...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0

Monthly values Controller web

When our customers work with budgets/forecasts in Controller they must enter/import YTD-values instead of monthly values. This is great how it works in Classic. Enter monthly values in specific forms -> storing YTD by adding last month YTD.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Make it easier to run Consolidations automatically

Our main User Group (Group Consolidation team) are aware of the ability to create automatic Consolidaitions via menu "Consolidation With Status" and "Schedule job...". But they want to create Consolidations on batch/schedule them in a more automat...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Account description available in Controller web

It would be great to have the possibility to see an account description on one account in Controller Web.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

We need to know if the session/task is from SMC

We are working to use SMC (Symphony MultiCluster). Since there is no database schema change, we can't tell if the session/task is from SMC. We created TS019242798 and know there is global id in PERF soamdb temp file (session_history/task_attribute...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration

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 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration