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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Reasons for FAP structure updates

Need to identify the specific reason why a FAP update structures process needs to be run. At the moment, reasons are in general categories such as "security" and cross-referencing the change in FAP with the trigger event in Controller is difficult.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Usage of the TLS1.0 protocol is unsafe

A customer has had an audit. From this audit it has ermerged that use of the TLS1.0 protocol is unsafe. Yet Cognos depends on this protocol on several fronts. Is there a solution for this?
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

copy/transfer company journals to another journal

Currently, a company journal can not be copied or transferred to a new company journal. We would recommend to foresee this functionality to avoid re-input/re-import of company journals when you restructure the number of company journals.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Singel Sign on (SSO) for smartcard / Biometrics.

Singel-sign-on for windows client doesn´t work with certificate based logon technology (Biometrics / Smartcard)
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Changed movement-logic in Data Entry on Investment account

Data Entry Form for Balance Sheet: --> Investments in Group Companies (Shareholding Register) If you want to open the shareholding Register within your Opening Balance Account, you´ll see all the Investments that have been done up to the Perio...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Change layout in Reconcile Intercompany

1. Users suggest that there shall be some kind of favorites/personal setting with selections, that can be saved and reused during another closing or a possibility to have a selection list saved in own excel sheet (e.g. list of reports), and copy t...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Change layout in IC report

Menu Company>Reports>Intercompany report.When the IC report is run it doesn´t show all related information for one transaction in one row. It would have been a good way of analyzing differences when opening the report in excel and filter, b...
over 7 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

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

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