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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Manual Journal Entry information needed in Planning Analytics

The FP&A team needs more details about the journals for their finance analysis, including header information as available in the reports XBJH and XDB22 from Cognos Controller. These information could also be leveraged to help automating some o...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Figures for group with cross-owned companies in the FAP cube do not match with numbers in Controller reports

When using FAP with General Configuration->Server Preferences the figures in MonthlyCompanyDetails FAP cube are different from the Controller Trial Balance Report - figures for group with cross-owned companies in the FAP cube do not match with ...
almost 7 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.
over 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...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Reconciliation report when using counterdimension

When you use counterdimensions it´s tricky to use the usual prebuild IC-reconciliation reports.To advance the prebuild reports it would be great to have the ability to select Dim1 instead of a company so that the report would present everything f...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to add a reconciliation rule between an Intercompany account and an Investment account

It would be beneficial if it was possible to enter reconciliation rules between Intercompany accounts and Investment accounts (defined with Investment code I (Acquisition calculation). Both of the IC-accounts and Investment accounts are used for g...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Company ending date should not impact user rights

We have noticed that when setting an ending date in the company structure, the company is automatically removed from the security rights. This is clearly a misbehaviour since you still need access to the company to view historical data.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Movement Account Audit Log

During 'system audit' the auditors are expecting to see a User Id assigned to all structural changes made within the chart of accounts. The user ID is populated when updated via the Maintain Account process but NOT when the Generate Movement Accou...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Web Client and 'columns for journals'

The Controller Web Client is currently enabled for 'standard' journal treatment only, it is not currently compatible with 'journals as columns', as defined within submission set up.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Excel link function to retrieve effective ownership and group currency other than immediate group

Currently excel link function cc.fCompOpwnp() to retrieve the effective ownership of an entity to group is limited to immediate group. And the function to retrieve group currency cc.fCompCurr() is also limited to immediate group in one consol type...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration