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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Account tree view report - export into excel

Account tree view report Possibility to export the report into Excel
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Reports>Intercompany report

1. If a company reports two rows with the same counterpart and account but different transaction currencies and the counterpart does not report anything, the report sum up the two amounts with different currencies and then creates a useless amount...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Currency Translation Report Rounding

Currency Rates in Cognos Controller allow up to 6 decimal places to to be captured, however the Currency Translation Reports only round to 3 decimal places which is visually "incorrect" from a Report perspective. Many of my customers would prefer ...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Quarter to Date (QTD) Reporting Interval in report writing

Customers frequently request a quarter-to-date (QTD) interval function in report creation. Currently we use the interval of 3 when writing quarterly reports, however this is only useful when running reports on a quarterly period.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enhance the security/usage of batch jobs

As more and more customers need improved and automatic data processes, we use the "Import from Staging Table" functionality. When we create a batch job we specify the user to run the batch job, but everybody is able to execute the job, which does ...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Transaction Amount differences in Intercompany Report

Customer has many intercompany transactions and tries to find differences in transaction amount between companies. Standard Intercompany Balances report shows only differences on group currency level. Customer asks for possibility to add or view d...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security Groups on Actualities

In Controller it is not currently possible to limit access to certain actualities for certain users. We have users who are responsible for the forecast/budget who should only have read access to the actual data, and vice versa.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Report book creation and maintenance

When a report book is created a selection of report should be done and saved on the page "define".In the second tab "Selections", we can set up the different reports.In the third tab "output", you define outputs settings. When we have to reorganiz...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Scheduler for extracting reportbook in Excel

During the monthly reporting period, many reportbooks must be generated in Excel (around 50). Each reportbook must be generated in separate folder.At this time, this is done manually reportbook by reportbook. For example, It can be great to use Wi...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 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.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration