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Add 'net accounting of intercompany balances' option in standard report

Applicable to IBM Cognos Controller v 11 -> In standard report 'group / reconcile / intercompany balances', there is a default option 'net accounting of intercompany balances'. Such option doesn't exist in the standard report 'company / reconci...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

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...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security issue of data in various Actualities

Example from our company. We have two separate Departments, IFRS and Budgeting, that use Cognos Controller simultaneously. The Departments use the same account and company structures, but different Actualities (AC –Actual, BU – Budgeting). The...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under 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 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Journal Report to generate report for all levels of the selected Groups

User is required to generate report for all subgroups by selecting one subgroup at a time and generate the report. To include option to generate entries for all subgroups under the selected TOP group.
over 7 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 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

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 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

Ability to export/import Controller Web Review Reports

Inside Controller classic, it is not possible to export "Reports Web". Specifically, there is not an option for this when exporting structures. => Therefore it is currently not possible to export/import Controller Web Review Reports. Please can...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

Currently =X does not work from any panel, should add this to the product

Must press pf3 to get out of the product, then =X or =XALL
about 5 years ago in Db2 SQL Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration