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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Import Specification Filter to allow Filter with Wildcard by Filename

Customer has a folder where the import csv files are generated. User sometimes forget to remove the old files before scheduling the import. Would help if the filter could filter out the files to load by the filename. (ie. period on the filename so...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Reconcile - Intercompany Profit Report also for companies

The report "Reconcile - Intercompany Profit" is just available for groups. Would it be possible to add it also for companies so as for the report "Reconcile - Intercompany Balances"?
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Intercompany report at a group level in one single sheet only instead of multiple worksheets

The report extracted from Report>Intercompany Accounts>Group, is coming for individual companies in separate sheets, even when the report has been extracted at group level, Kindly let us know if the said sheets can be combined and the interc...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Open all Forms as a single report

A command to generate all applicable Forms in one go as a report. This will help the review process.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Company-wise allocation of individual account codes in the Group Journals

Company-wise allocation of individual account codes in the Group Journals
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

How to customize summary information in dashboard

I have created a country wise crosstab dashboard with 2 measure values where one measure value is picking up the maximum value on database for considering at month level (for eg: if there are 100 rows of data for a column in particular month is av...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add Lookup Tables to the Structure Changes that are tracked

Our external auditors are adding controls to the mapping of data (trial balance and statisical data) into Cognos. In order to elminate the need for the walk-through of negative and postive testing in Cognos (on a regular basis) it would be helpful...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Ability to add acquired balance sheet and net result in shareholdings

Normally when acquiring a business combination there's an acquired balance sheet needed for cash flow purposes and also eliminating the net result before the acquisition date if the acquired company reports YTD values. Today acquired balance sheet...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Settings to prevent Cognos Controller Web user to click on Set to Ready

In Cognos Controller Web, user is able to click on set company status to ready when they multi select on the company. The user sometimes confuse other users submission with their own, thus accidentally set wrong submission to ready. So if possible...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration