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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Prevent modification of historical Investment register entries

Users are currently allowed to edit any Investment Register entries, regardless of if they are in a historically closed accounting period. This can cause issues when trying to re-run consolidation for previous periods.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Controller Web support for "Reconcile by Journal" setting

Currently Controller Web produce an error message if Reconcile is set to be made by Journal Type, also described in the following technote and APAR: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21998917https://www-01.ibm.com/support/entdocview...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Print all IC-reports at once

Users run Company>Reconcile>Intercompany balances for a company and many IC-reports. Then they want to print all the IC-reports and have to pick them one by one. They want to have a button "Print all".
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support to access Sharepoint Online (365) via the Controller on cloud environment

We would like the ability to access our SharePoint (online 365) sites via the controller cloud environment. Currently we have access to our individual Onedrive for business drives but for collaborative teams, we need to also access shared / common...
almost 3 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...
about 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...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple periods on Reconciliation Report

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

Display the number of active users logged on

It would be beneficial if the total number of users logged on to Controller is displayed in the function View Active Users. Today we have to count the number of users manually and it´s quite time consuming if there are more than 150 users logged ...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Automated reports emailed to user

Controller currently requires users to login and run reconciliation reports. Users have requested the ability to add some automation to this process so that the reconciliation report is sent by email.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

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