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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.
over 1 year 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. ...
over 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 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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...
almost 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.
almost 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?
almost 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".
almost 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...
almost 2 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...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future 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