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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Allow FAP to pass Journal Header info over from Controller to Planning Analytics

In order to allow the Finance Planning and Analysis team to have a better view on Journal information in Planning Analytics, it would be best to allow FAP to pass the Journal's header information over from Controller to PA.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Company independent lookup tables in controller web

In the client version of cognos controller the possibility exists to create company independent lookup tables by including a temporary field that retrieves the company code in the upload file and link this to the mapping table with the same code. ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Alignment format of Reports download from Controller

When downloading some standard reports (Eg. Company>Reports>Journals, Group>Reports>Journals, Maintain>Account Structure>Reports, etc.) in excel format from Controller, the alignment of the columns are incorrect. The headers shif...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Reschedule multiple batch jobs (multi-select) at the same time

Our clients use Maintain -> Batch Queue -> Manage in order to reschedule batch jobs in Cognos Controller. They reschedule them to be executed immediately. The jobs are put in a queue which is fine and executed as configured (1 by 1). Unfo...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Including Range of Dates on "One Time Only" option for Batch Queue.

The Users would be greatly benefitted as scheduling the "One Time Only" option allows them to select it for only one date at a time.The Daily option cannot be Used as it has shown errors earlier.
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Creating new batch service

Hi Team, We would like to have 2 batch services set up for Cognos Controller on Cloud to run the 2 consolidations together which we already have a set up in on-prem environment and we would like to have the same on IBM cloud.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Multiple periods on Reconciliation Report

Multiple periods on a Reconciliation Report to be made available.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Manual Journal Entry information needed in Planning Analytics

The FP&A team needs more details about the journals for their finance analysis, including header information as available in the reports XBJH and XDB22 from Cognos Controller. These information could also be leveraged to help automating some o...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

System Audit log - Failed login attempts

The idea would be to add functionality to record failed login attempts in the system audit log in Cognos Controller. It would be beneficial to have this shown in the audit log because this would strengthen the security of the application and the p...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration