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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Replication of user logs across all instances when signing onto Controller SaaS

Controller SaaS is currently presented through IBM Citrix with automated load balancing applied between Citrix servers when users connect. This results in user log information being stored against different servers, which in turn creates an incons...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Interoperability of Cognos Controller excel files with other excel documents and speed

Two issues that reporting entities have faced while working on Cognos excel file: a) Slower speed and system crashing while entities reports their financial information during the peak time. b) Unable to save Cognos forms when multiple non-Cognos ...
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

TM1 and Cognos Controller Interoperability

TM1 crashes or takes reasonably long time to process reports if run from ‘Perspective’ in Excel, while running along with Cognos Controller. TM1 and Cognos controller should be compatible and should not crash if both application running in the par...
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Automatically populate specification of shares in subsidiaries from Investment elimination template

If you have an integrated specification of shares in subsidiaries with an OB/CB logic and adding values on the movement accounts in the investment elimination template you can in Excel in Data Entry view in Classic click on any account in this spe...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Support TLS 1.3 for CCR

Customers want to further hardened their network by disabling lower TLS version and enable TLS 1.3. CCR should be updated to support latest LTS.
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

System Audit Log - Detailed Extract

Quarterly SOX compliance requires detail (Company, Account, Amount) found when clicking "show details" button for each modified form within System Audit Log for a given period. Currently manually opening each entry to verify amendments made by spe...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

ControllerWeb - Reconciliation optimisation

Currently, the limitation concerns only the “IC reconciliation” (see – “Largest Difference Accepted During Reconciliation”) and NOT the reconciliation between Assets and Liabilities… Therefore, could you add a field in order to reconcile with a ma...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Connection between forms in Web

It would be very usefull if on WEB it would be possible to link another form to a postion. This is possible on classic application but not on Web, which is important. For example in form NB12 we have account BAB02 and I want to click on this accou...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Free forms in Intercompany and reconcile tab in Controller Web

In Controller web , in the reconcile and intercompany tab and in case of a free form, it is not possible to go directly to the form in which you would like to correct the error. One has to open the form from the populate tab. This is slower and wh...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Calculations for storing in forms in Controller web

Example: It would be great to have forms where you kan mix different actualities, and have calculations which makes the summation stored in the db. For example in the budget-process when you define forms where you get AC (YTD) in the first column ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration