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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 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Add the Open XLS, XLSX funktion in Reports as it was with the IE Browser enabled

HI Team, cusotmers now have to do 3 clicks instead of 1. Then you run for example an ADHoc report and choose XLS oder XLSX then you can only save the file and openit afterwards. a option to open it directly without saving like IE did this would b...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 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 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

When setting up daily consolidations there should be button to press if you want the consolidations to run every hour

It will save time for the consolidators. We have 5 different actualities that is run every hour during the days of closing and even if I uses the option to set up daily consolidations I need to create 5 consolidations (as we consolidate 5 actualit...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Import Specification Filter to allow Filter with Wildcard by Filename

Customer has a folder where the import csv files are generated. User sometimes forget to remove the old files before scheduling the import. Would help if the filter could filter out the files to load by the filename. (ie. period on the filename so...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Reconcile - Intercompany Profit Report also for companies

The report "Reconcile - Intercompany Profit" is just available for groups. Would it be possible to add it also for companies so as for the report "Reconcile - Intercompany Balances"?
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Intercompany report at a group level in one single sheet only instead of multiple worksheets

The report extracted from Report>Intercompany Accounts>Group, is coming for individual companies in separate sheets, even when the report has been extracted at group level, Kindly let us know if the said sheets can be combined and the interc...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future 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 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under 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 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration