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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Unlocked cells in web

Cells that are locked in form in Excel, are open in web. This is probably due to the fact that the forms are not opened in an Excel environment, but as a web form. This creates a loophole to input data into accounts that should not reported into.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Fast way to lock historical rates

For every acquisition I have to lock currency rates within the acquisition register and under Group/Data Entry/Historical Rates. If we acquire a group of entities it could be quite some entries.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Company status not changing to processing after a journal upload

Company status not changing to “processing” after a journal upload (because General setting is set as reconcile in REPO) – When using the journal upload functionality the system should behaves like when doing a posting directly in Controller...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

More user friendly and correct IC Reconcile Intercompany Balances report, if using large dimension/BA structure

See attached file with current report and suggestions to change the report to show correct and useful and a lot more user friendly information.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

On Cloud - AD Management Portal - Create New Users Info Button To Update

when creating new user in AD Management Portal, If you clicked on all the info button besides the field but nothing pops out. we are unable to tell if the button doesn't have information or fails to work because there is no behaviour. Can those in...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

User Logon/off log records to identify mode of access (client, excel-linked, web)

when Administrator reviews user log on records, there can be multiple logon and logoff records around the same time when user log in to application and excel link. But Administrator is unable to identify which record is for which mode of access. W...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Deliver server installation as Docker package

With Microsoft looking to implement support for Docker (docker.com), it could be nice to have a delivery option as a Docker package. Not necessarily via dockerhub, it's possible to load and use a docker image from a downloaded file as well.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Status for REPO should not be affected by imported journals

The customer is using period locking on company level for REPO. When submission 1 is closed for the company, a company journal can be entered and this will not affect the status for submission 1. But if the same journal is imported through "Import...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Server Preference DEJOUNAL_SUBMLOCK to include Group Journal

Server Preference DEJOUNAL_SUBMLOCK to include Group Journal, current it is for company journals only.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Better functionality in Company structure, Reorder

In Maintain > Company structure – Define, the Reorder-window, the drag-and-drop functionality is very time consuming, in larger groups. Please add the possibility to cut-and-paste row(s) as an alternative to drag-and-drop.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration