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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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IC reconciliation on transaction currency in Web portal

When using the new web portal it is difficult to see true differences in IC reconciliations. Current IC reconciliation on the web only highlights the total difference, but when working in a multy currency environment that is not enough. A currency...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

FAP Initial Publish Process Improvement

Currently, every time that FAP goes into Error State (which has been happening more often than we would like), we have to start an Initial Publish to put it back up, which takes a lot of time to complete (from 2 to 5 hours in some cases), and it s...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Allow multiple users in Investment register at the same time

Multiple users should be able to access the Investment register, so that they don't need to wait for somebody to be done entering their new investment values.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Journal Report to generate report for all levels of the selected Groups

User is required to generate report for all subgroups by selecting one subgroup at a time and generate the report. To include option to generate entries for all subgroups under the selected TOP group.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security issue of data in various Actualities

Example from our company. We have two separate Departments, IFRS and Budgeting, that use Cognos Controller simultaneously. The Departments use the same account and company structures, but different Actualities (AC –Actual, BU – Budgeting). The...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

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,...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add commonly used Excel functionalities into Cognos Web

It would be useful to add commonly used excel functionality (Summation, Variance calculation, % calculation, reconciliation etc.) in Cognos Web version for both the free forms as well as standard forms. This will save time as we can do the calcula...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Local client being compatible for different product versions

The Controller 11 client that is currently downloaded From Controller Web to a user's machine is only compatible to a single product version. For customers with separate production and development environments this will cause a restriction, say de...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Method to increase idle timeout for Controller Web (currently fixed at 60 minutes)

If a user is logged into Controller Web, but pauses using it (leaving it on screen but idle) they will get a problem if they don't click on anything (in Controller Web) for more than 60 minutes. If using Native authentication, it will just return ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

CSV upload of consolidations to batch queue

The area of interest is the Consolidation batch queue. We have to consolidate all actualities and periods, both monthly and weekly including linked actualities on a quarterly basis. It can be time consuming uploading the consolidations into the ba...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release