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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Details for User Creation Date

Auditors asking about the User Creation date. Have checked the xuser table but it is reflecting the last changed date (eg. change of password) rather than creation.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Number of Intercompany differences in Submission Overview

It would be very helpful if a user with lot of companies could view number of intercompany differences directly in the "Submission Overview" instead of opening company by company.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

New menus that are added and requires an admin license should be manually enabled

Currently when new menus are added that require an admin license (mostly menus under Maintain), then it's almost always required to revoke access when upgrading the system It would be better to advertise the menu in the what's new (and blog posts,...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Limited user rights for Actualities

Is it possible to add within the user rights limitations for actualities in Cognos Controller?
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

CSV upload of consolidations to batch queue

The area of interest is the Consolidation batch queue. We have to consolidate all actualities and periods, both monthly and weekly including linked actualities on a quarterly basis. It can be time consuming uploading the consolidations into the ba...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Configuration to prevent company journals from being entered in anything other than local currency

Add to Cognos Controller a configuration setting to prevent users from entering company journals in anything other than local currency.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Add commonly used Excel functionalities into Cognos Web

It would be useful to add commonly used excel functionality (Summation, Variance calculation, % calculation, reconciliation etc.) in Cognos Web version for both the free forms as well as standard forms. This will save time as we can do the calcula...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Controller web-to allow fixing of historical rate on company journal

Controller web company journal data entry should allow fixing of historical rate like what the Controller Classic is currently providing.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Log Report to enhance for import from staging table

Enhance Log Report to show information e.g. company code in the Data File box for import from staging table. In the current version this box is empty.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration