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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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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 ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Shareholdings and investments in external companies, restrict to current period

Our users add values in Shareholdings and Investments for external companies via a form. In the Shareholdings register the users can add other dates than from current period. But in the form it will be saved at current period. See attached documen...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Posting of AJT 40 should be posted for the Transaction Amounts as well

After running the consolidation, noted that for S-Proportional consolidation method entities, the automatic journal 40 posts the eg. -55% on the local currency. But when checking the details of the journal, for the intercompany accounts, noted tha...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Possibility to add a reconciliation rule between an Intercompany account and an Investment account

It would be beneficial if it was possible to enter reconciliation rules between Intercompany accounts and Investment accounts (defined with Investment code I (Acquisition calculation). Both of the IC-accounts and Investment accounts are used for g...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Allow customers to enable multiple consolidations batches to run in parallel

Because of the high volume of the consolidation we need to run during the closing periods, it will be very beneficial to have the ability to run multiple consolidations at the same time, in parallel batch jobs. We understand the risk of running co...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Application Performance Dashboard to monitor some parameters and get alerts when approaching critical states

Currently, when the application performance goes down, we only get to know it by the feedback we get from the users, when they have already been hit by slowness or instability accessing the application or running reports/processes within it. In or...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Figures for group with cross-owned companies in the FAP cube do not match with numbers in Controller reports

When using FAP with General Configuration->Server Preferences the figures in MonthlyCompanyDetails FAP cube are different from the Controller Trial Balance Report - figures for group with cross-owned companies in the FAP cube do not match with ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

FAP Service.properties - Password Encryption

Hi, at our client Atlantic Group d.d. during upgrade of PA,CA,CC client set request to eliminate all hardcoded passwords on any file on all models. We successfully eliminated them by using inbuilt encryption (e.g. in PA) or if password was in .bat...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Support for Windows Authentication between Controller and SQL Server

Database administrators more and more frequently disables SQL Server Logins and prefer to use Windows Authentication between server applications and Microsoft SQL Server database servers. In Controller, it would be nice to have turn-key support to...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Period locked indication in Cognos Web

There is a feature to lock a period in Cognos Controller. As a result of the same, when a user tries to amend any data, it does not allow to update/input any value. Same period is unlocked in Cognos Web for same entity. Web user is unable to updat...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

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