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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Reconciliation report when using counterdimension

When you use counterdimensions it´s tricky to use the usual prebuild IC-reconciliation reports.To advance the prebuild reports it would be great to have the ability to select Dim1 instead of a company so that the report would present everything f...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Dimensions in columns in Trial Balance

Customers works more and more with extended dimensions. They have a strong wish and need to select to see dimensions in columns in the same way that you can select to see companies in columns.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Controller forms - Shareholdings Opening Balance not allowing for data entry due to Dimensions

Currently controller forms does not allow users to select dimensions in the Opening Shareholdings icon. If Dimensions not used for that account, then yes values can be saved. However when Dimensions are tagged for that account, the dimensions cann...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Reports Report

There is no way to pull out a report with all reports entered in Controller for both Company and Group Companies.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Display the number of active users logged on

It would be beneficial if the total number of users logged on to Controller is displayed in the function View Active Users. Today we have to count the number of users manually and it´s quite time consuming if there are more than 150 users logged ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Trial Balance

When the trial balance is sent to Excel, the desire that the headlines would be locked in the same way as they are when you don't choose to send the report to Excel.
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Limited user rights for Actualities

Is it possible to add within the user rights limitations for actualities in Cognos Controller?
almost 8 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...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Request to increase client -server timeout

Current client-server timeout is hardcoded to 15 minutes, as confirmed by IBM Helpdesk. The timeout setting is too short as users will get kicked out of Controller and will get the error "user xyz is logged in". Thereafter another user will have t...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Print all IC-reports at once

Users run Company>Reconcile>Intercompany balances for a company and many IC-reports. Then they want to print all the IC-reports and have to pick them one by one. They want to have a button "Print all".
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration