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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Add the Open XLS, XLSX funktion in Reports as it was with the IE Browser enabled

HI Team, cusotmers now have to do 3 clicks instead of 1. Then you run for example an ADHoc report and choose XLS oder XLSX then you can only save the file and openit afterwards. a option to open it directly without saving like IE did this would b...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Company independent lookup tables in controller web

In the client version of cognos controller the possibility exists to create company independent lookup tables by including a temporary field that retrieves the company code in the upload file and link this to the mapping table with the same code. ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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 1 year 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 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Drop support for SQL Server 2012 and consider removing the use of 'legacy cardinality estimator'

Have had a few discussions with SQL Server dba:s recently during upgrades about the need to change the default sql server settings. There were some changes introduced in SQL Server 2014 that made performance really drop unless running in SQL Serve...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Sensitive Access Report showing users with Write access rights with privilege to enter Journals

We need to validate what are the users that have sensitive access (i.e. Write access rights, with privilege to enter Journals) and to what entities/companies, so we can manage them appropriately and avoid business risks to our Financial statements...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Support to access Sharepoint Online (365) via the Controller on cloud environment

We would like the ability to access our SharePoint (online 365) sites via the controller cloud environment. Currently we have access to our individual Onedrive for business drives but for collaborative teams, we need to also access shared / common...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Better functionality in Company structure, Reorder

In Maintain > Company structure – Define, the Reorder-window, the drag-and-drop functionality is very time consuming, in larger groups. Please add the possibility to cut-and-paste row(s) as an alternative to drag-and-drop.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Search functionality in security groups

When changing/creating existing/new security groups for companies (Maintain > Rights > Security groups - Companies) there's no functionality for searching for a company/group company. All searching must be done manually which is very time co...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration