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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Select multiple periods for copying opening balances

Users have requested the ability to copy forward opening balances for multiple periods.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Log Report to enhance for import from staging table

Enhance Log Report to show information e.g. company code in the Data File box for import from staging table. In the current version this box is empty.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web support for "Reconcile by Journal" setting

Currently Controller Web produce an error message if Reconcile is set to be made by Journal Type, also described in the following technote and APAR: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21998917https://www-01.ibm.com/support/entdocview...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Pushdown button - Updating all flows

Users manually pushing down journal by adding BC flow in journal and repo forms Option should be enabled to users for Pushdown where cognos auto updates BC flow to Journal and forms when user decides to pushdown the journal.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Enable Daily, weekly, Monthly schedule job option when uploading file in SFTP server for Cognos Controller on Cloud.

Kindly help us to recommend a best method to upload a file from third party to into the Cognos Controller. As requirement business wanted to know how we can upload a file from third party to Cognos Controller of ABI application. We want the proces...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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

Alignment format of Reports download from Controller

When downloading some standard reports (Eg. Company>Reports>Journals, Group>Reports>Journals, Maintain>Account Structure>Reports, etc.) in excel format from Controller, the alignment of the columns are incorrect. The headers shif...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Reporting status visible in intercompany reconciliaton (controller web)

It would be nice to see in the intercompany reconciliation tab of Controller Web the reporting status of the counterparts. For example all the amounts will appear as differences , even when the counterpart has not started the input, so it is not a...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Multiple periods on Reconciliation Report

Multiple periods on a Reconciliation Report to be made available.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Automated reports emailed to user

Controller currently requires users to login and run reconciliation reports. Users have requested the ability to add some automation to this process so that the reconciliation report is sent by email.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration