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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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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

Pushdown button - Updating all flows

Users manually pushing down journal by adding BC flow in journal and repo forms Option should be enabled to users for Pushdown where cognos auto updates BC flow to Journal and forms when user decides to pushdown the journal.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Can we have option where we can overwrite numbers for all accounts?

When we try to do over write numbers, we can do only for accounts what we are loading numbers. Can we have option where we can overwrite numbers for all accounts?
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Functionality already exists

Auto populate tax and other statistical accounts calculation for Journals

For journal impacting PL, Tax lines are manually calculated and updated to journal including statistical accounts. System should auto add tax lines based on Tax rates per country by adding option in journal like "Calculate tax".
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Enable Daily, weekly, Monthly schedule job option when uploading file in SFTP server for Cognos Controller on Cloud.

Kindly help us to recommend a best method to upload a file from third party to into the Cognos Controller. As requirement business wanted to know how we can upload a file from third party to Cognos Controller of ABI application. We want the proces...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under 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.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

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

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...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Launch Citrix Receiver Session on Full Screen Mode by default

In order to allow our users to be able to access Cognos Controller from home, we are implementing WVD (Windows Vitrual Desktop), but it seems to have a compatibility issue with the IBM Citrix DPI settings, because when the users maximize the Contr...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Company ending date should not impact user rights

We have noticed that when setting an ending date in the company structure, the company is automatically removed from the security rights. This is clearly a misbehaviour since you still need access to the company to view historical data.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration