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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Exclusive security for historical rates on journals

One of our consumers asked us to block access to the Historical Rates table, but leave it available for puting data on journal entries only, so users cannot see they can put historical rates for all accounts that allows that.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security group settings impacting controller web

Menu security group has a significant impact on enabling "SUBMIT" TAB in controller web. No knowledge base report detail which menu items should be given READ access to get the SUBMIT Tab enabled in Web.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Reports in Cognos Controller Web

In Controller Web, reports developed in classic version are not made available. instead users have to develop their own report. This defeats the whole purpose of decentralising reporting site. Without any standard reports users are deprived of rev...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Calculation of Company Vote %

System currently does not calculate Company Vote %.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

UDBR - .setRelativePeriod for target

UDBR issue:.setRelativePeriod not working for target, only work for source. We would pretty much need it for Target as well as we only want it to happen on specific month. for example we want it to happen every year July , target1.setRelativePerio...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Customisation of reconciliation reports

Cognos should allow customisation of the reconciliation reports ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' and 'Intercompany Balance' reports) to include the space for sign-off, name and designation of the preparer and reviewer/approver, along with the ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Setting up of customizable thresholds for reconciliation review

It will be helpful if there is an option within Cognos to configure thresholds (both in absolute (i.e. in AED) and relative terms (i.e. as a percentage of the reported values). Any individual reconciliation within the 'Intercompany Balances' recon...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Capability to provide review comments against individual analysis/forms

It would be helpful if the Controller allows the reviewing entity/reviewer to provide review comments against individual submissions (forms or analysis within the form, where applicable) reported by the subsidiaries in Cognos. The reporting entity...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Reference to originating form in reconciliation report ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' 'and Intercompany Balance'

It will be helpful for the user if the aforementioned reconciliation reports include the form numbers from which the account codes are coming right next to the account codes.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Locking of account codes to prevent data import

Currently, the Cognos allows data entry into account codes that have been locked for data entry when using the "export data" option in cognos controller link (excel add-in). The system should not allow the data to be imported (neither through exce...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration