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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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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...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 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. ...
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...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Native API connectors from IBM CCR (On Cloud) to PowerBI

It is popular today for Native API connectors for a variety of systems and understanding that an organization may not utilize solely 1 or 2 systems from a principal. Hence, the need for native API connectors between various principals. Such would ...
over 4 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 ...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Export Attachments on Journals from Controller Web

Today its not possible to export all attachments on journals from controller web at the same time. Ideally would be if the attachments are included when exporting data both from Controller Web and Controller Classic. Or if you you had the option t...
about 1 year 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Delete functionality in the import specifications in Controller Web

It would be useful to have the delete functionality in the import specifications of Controller Web, similar as it is available in Controller Client.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Functionality already exists

Reconciliation report when using counterdimension

When you use counterdimensions it´s tricky to use the usual prebuild IC-reconciliation reports.To advance the prebuild reports it would be great to have the ability to select Dim1 instead of a company so that the report would present everything f...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Run more than one consolidations simoultenously

In Cognos Controller we we are able to run only one consolidation at a time. It does not allow other consolidation to run once the first one is finished. Can we enable option or anything change in system that can allow to run more than one consoli...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration