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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Extension summation of accounts

The summation for accounts is limited to three summations. It would be highly desirable if the summation would be extended up to 5 or 6 summation accounts. The IFRS standard setter plan to introduce a new structure for the profit & loss and th...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

QTD data in one form.

Our customers report data in QTD format in quarter three as below (cloumns): 1. 01.07.2023-30.09.2023 - Q3 In the period2. 30.09.2023 Q3 YTD3. 01.07.2022-30.09.2022 - Q3 In the period4. 30.09.2022 Q3 YTD It would be useful to be able to set the co...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

FAP Initial Publish Process Improvement

Currently, every time that FAP goes into Error State (which has been happening more often than we would like), we have to start an Initial Publish to put it back up, which takes a lot of time to complete (from 2 to 5 hours in some cases), and it s...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Controller Web to have all Controller Classic features

Controller Web 104.1 should have all of the features available through Controller classic. Every application is moving towards achieving a web foot print and HTML5 compatibility. Users are loosing confidence on Controller Classic as other vendors ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Automating process that every steps are performed when a FAP synch is required

Hi Team, We have faced issue with sync in Past between the FAP and Controller databases where IBM need to manually go ahead IBM executed a sync between the FAP and Controller databases. Can we automating this process so that every steps are perfor...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Timezone for Cloud should be matching to Local Timezone

Currently all Controller-on-Cloud server (for all customers) are in UTC time-zone without the ability to change to reflect the Local date and time (eg. UTC +8). When reading when the reports were last refreshed or generated or saved, it is confusi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

CCR Web limitation on rows

1) Forms enabled with 2 and more extended dimensions should not affect the number of rows display on screen.2) Row definition should have adequate spaces to display account name properly.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Translation method D for intercompany currency differences

Issue: For our Group consolidation we are translating P/L figures using translation method D (Average Period rates). But on intercompany transactions Cognos Controller calculates and post currency differences based on translation method M (Average...
8 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

IC reconciliation on transaction currency in Web portal

When using the new web portal it is difficult to see true differences in IC reconciliations. Current IC reconciliation on the web only highlights the total difference, but when working in a multy currency environment that is not enough. A currency...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow multiple users in Investment register at the same time

Multiple users should be able to access the Investment register, so that they don't need to wait for somebody to be done entering their new investment values.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release