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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

New menus that are added and requires an admin license should be manually enabled

Currently when new menus are added that require an admin license (mostly menus under Maintain), then it's almost always required to revoke access when upgrading the system It would be better to advertise the menu in the what's new (and blog posts,...
almost 3 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

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 5 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 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Administrators are able to set the startpageurl preference in Controller centrally

The startpageurl preference is not available at server preference level and has to be setup and configured by each user themselves.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Account Structure Reports - Analyze

We want to have in the Account Structure Reports, when selecting a specific account, also the linked structure code, right now you only can see the link type and the name of the linked structure.We would like the 'Link Type' included on the Accoun...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

system audit log to track comments input/changes from CCR client & CCR web

users would like to have comments tracked. both comments entered through ccr client data entry forms or ccr web forms.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Edit counter dimension in Cognos web

We use dimensions in PL and BAL reporting and therefore also counter dimension in intercompany transactions. It is possible to enter and update this variable in the thick client, but not in the web client. As this is crucial in our intercompany re...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Increase company code length from 6 to 9

current controller company code is limited to 6 characters. user has multiple consolidation types in which have used up alot of the alphanumeric combinations as group codes between consolidation types should be different. When it comes to group re...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration