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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
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

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

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

Create a user for bring access to Security Groups, add users to Controller but without access to data

Problem to create a user who can manage the security product without the having access to the entire system Controller
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Journal security

Context: the client is loading a high number of manual journals for all entities on a monthly basis through the menu Transfer/ External data/ Import from flat files In Cognos Controller, it is true that when a user is working in the menu Company /...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support for Office 365/click-to-run and 64 bit versions

The Controller Link add-in only supports 32 bit msi versions of Office/Excel. Many users have a need of using 64 bit versions due to large files, and furthermore we are using the click-to-run versions (not msi), also not supported. Micorsoft are p...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Enable audit tracking of changes to Form and Report design

User changed the layout of a form or report. We would like to see who changed the form layout through audit tracking.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security log report

The security log is not very easy to follow : Is there a plan in a next version to have a kind of log where we can see the before and after, or like in the log report of Accounts or Import external data : Update, Insert or delete?
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Group currency values in intercompany matching report for P&L accounts

Please can IC report transactions from the previous period be loaded with the result that D-coded accounts are translated using the D-rate on the period value and then added to the translated previous YTD value when running the intercompany matchi...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration