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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Trial Balance with comparsion period

Possibility to run a Trial Balance in Controller Classic selecting a comparison period. That means, each company represents of two columns (one is the selected actuality/period, the other is the comparative actuality/period).
almost 4 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...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Suport Multiple data marts in Controller FAP fully

A customer publishes several datamarts from a single source. Structures are updated in Controller and the user goes into FAP administration and tries to update structures on all datamarts concurrently. Sometimes this will fail because the temporar...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

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.
over 2 years 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...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future 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...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Replication of user logs across all instances when signing onto Controller SaaS

Controller SaaS is currently presented through IBM Citrix with automated load balancing applied between Citrix servers when users connect. This results in user log information being stored against different servers, which in turn creates an incons...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

provide Index status between CCR database and FAP to enable customer to decide if we need to reset the data publish

Currently there are many instances where the data is not fully published, especially when the new structures are published in controller, this leads to data consistency problem in report. So the users does not know when to reset the trickle publis...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration