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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Allow the sum of Movement Accounts in Controller Web

The Movement Account is compsed of: 1) Main Account, and 2) Movement Extention. When creating the Movement Account we specify what is the main account summation for main accounts, and what is the movement ext summation for movement extentions. The...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Controller View/Manage Active Users to include Controller Web users

Controller function for View/Manage Active Users to include controller web users.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Remove reserved character from password field

Currently when setting up ERO a username and password is required. Unfortunately the * character has been reserved and can not be used in the password.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Controller web intercompany reconcile

At present all liability balances are shown as positive in the intercompany. This means matched intercompany balances show as unmatched. This is a key part of the appeal of the Controller web which would be extremely useful for our subsidiaries to...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Using accounts in forms without having the form being considered reported in the Command Center

The company uses several forms to input on IFRS accounts. In other forms, the IFRS amounts are broken down by the user to other accounts and dimensions for disclosure purposes. In these disclosure forms, the amounts on the IFRS accounts are shown ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Command Center: Monitoring form input progress at REPO level

The company uses the command center in Cognos Controller to monitor the form input status and progress by entity during the closing process. If input is done in a form, the form status changes from ‘missing' to ‘ reported'. However, the form s...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Reasons for FAP structure updates

Need to identify the specific reason why a FAP update structures process needs to be run. At the moment, reasons are in general categories such as "security" and cross-referencing the change in FAP with the trigger event in Controller is difficult.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Usage of the TLS1.0 protocol is unsafe

A customer has had an audit. From this audit it has ermerged that use of the TLS1.0 protocol is unsafe. Yet Cognos depends on this protocol on several fronts. Is there a solution for this?
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

copy/transfer company journals to another journal

Currently, a company journal can not be copied or transferred to a new company journal. We would recommend to foresee this functionality to avoid re-input/re-import of company journals when you restructure the number of company journals.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Singel Sign on (SSO) for smartcard / Biometrics.

Singel-sign-on for windows client doesn´t work with certificate based logon technology (Biometrics / Smartcard)
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration