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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Enable multi-factor authentication for Cognos Controller Cloud

With increased global cyber security activity / threats faced by businesses across the globe, it would be great to enable multi-factor authentication functionality to Cognos Controller Cloud that aligns to the ACS Essential 8 maturity model.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Interco profit load %

Would it be possible to load the interco profit margin % instead of doing it manually. Could be In the interco profit data entry directly or when loading a general ledger add a column to load % interco profit.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

E-typ 18 should use General config Differences to balance bookings

E-typ 18 creates a booking that doesn't balance. It should use the account configured in General config for "Other difference for Automatic Journals" to balance the journal. Affects all users in the system and ouccurs almost every months.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Controller Email Feature to connect to Controller Appl instead of direct to SMTP server

controller client to send email instruction via Application Server to SMTP server, instead of current design where client machine calling SMTP server directly. IT policy does not allow users to connect directly to SMTP server. With the change, use...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Upload Historical rates

Our client would like to translate cash flow line items at a more accurate rate than just using the M, D or B rate. In order to provide them the functionality we would make use of the historical rates table. Their concern is that head office shoul...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Web Drill down details at Account level to excel for Comments at Inter Co level

Comments are available under Field 6 for counter company when clicked on ‘Open drill-down’. However, when this data is exported to excel, then these comments do not appear in excel download. Comments updated have to be referred while reviewing the...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Post profit&loss automatically in Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Controller Classic there is a functionality in import specifications to transfer profit&loss automatically to a P&L account in the balance sheet. This functionality does not exist in the WEB import. We would like to see this func...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Blank substitution lookup table - Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Cognos Controller WEB, we are creating lookup tables for import from Excel/csv-files. These import files contain rows where intercompany data has no counterpart information (blank). In Controller Classic we normally translate this blank ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Import journals while reporting takes place in a form

This enhancement regards Error 47 "The form containing the account is locked for update" inside 'Import of External Data' report. In a reporting process countries report their data in forms (REPO) while group accounting performs adjustments in jou...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Helping manage the icons that appear for

We are a large company with heavy dependency on Cognos Controller, for our consolidation process. Since IBM cannot hold more than 4 DBs in 1 environment, we have 5 - Dev 1, 2 & 3 (2&3) being for reference and Staging and Prod. With all the...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration