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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Cognos Controller FAP client: User friendly error message needed after fixpack installed

When version upgrades are installed or fixpacks applied to the Cognos Controller Financial Analytics Publisher (FAP), there is sometimes the need to upgrade the database version of the FAP database to match. If this point is overlooked (it's not m...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Create a user for bring access to Security Groups, add users to Controller but without access to data

Problem to create a user who can manage the security product without the having access to the entire system Controller
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Restrict databases in select database to log on to

We intend to use Cognos Controller in a cloud environment where internal but also external users (customers) have access to. Currently, when a user launch Cognos Controller client, they will see all cognos controller databases in the "select datab...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Journal security

Context: the client is loading a high number of manual journals for all entities on a monthly basis through the menu Transfer/ External data/ Import from flat files In Cognos Controller, it is true that when a user is working in the menu Company /...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Office 365/click-to-run and 64 bit versions

The Controller Link add-in only supports 32 bit msi versions of Office/Excel. Many users have a need of using 64 bit versions due to large files, and furthermore we are using the click-to-run versions (not msi), also not supported. Micorsoft are p...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enable audit tracking of changes to Form and Report design

User changed the layout of a form or report. We would like to see who changed the form layout through audit tracking.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security log report

The security log is not very easy to follow : Is there a plan in a next version to have a kind of log where we can see the before and after, or like in the log report of Accounts or Import external data : Update, Insert or delete?
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security on Log Reports

One is unable to apply security on the Log Reports. Although a user may be restricted and have specific have rights to certain entities, the same user can open a Data Load Log Report for all entities and therefore gain access to privileged data.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Disable of option to consol as per method 1 and method 2

Disable method 1 and method 2 for consolidation and want to give only method “according to company structure definition”.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Group currency values in intercompany matching report for P&L accounts

Please can IC report transactions from the previous period be loaded with the result that D-coded accounts are translated using the D-rate on the period value and then added to the translated previous YTD value when running the intercompany matchi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration