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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Controller Classic Transfer / Export Structures - make Controller Web Import Specs and Lookups selection specific

Instead of having to import all Controller Web Import Specifications and/or all Web Lookup tables, it would be helpful if you could select specific Import Specifications and Lookup tables. (especially as Transfer/Export Structures is IBM's work ar...
3 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Ability to turn off the 'Submission deadlines' view/tile from Controller Web 'Home' page

Some larger customers have expressed a wish to have the ability to turn off the 'Submission deadlines' view in Controller Web, as their deadlines are set per company/group of companies, per period and actuality, so would rather not have that view ...
16 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

Commentary enablement against Controller Web reporting

In supplement to BACC-I-548, can Controller Web reporting also seek to improve the functionality for commentary capture. Users typically want to provide commentary on Controller at a summarised level, not an account entry level. For example, comme...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Variance analysis needed within Controller Web reporting

The selection of column content for reporting is prescriptive. You have to chose individual actualities, periods, etc. This means you can present say Actual data against Budget data. You cannot however then add a new column that then presents the ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Procedure to do a mass delete in the SQL-tables (outside the Controller interface).

It is very much work to execute the UNSUPPORTED solution described hereby. We require this because we perform regularly a datarefresh to another pillar. In the target pillar, other users need access to Controller, and it should taken many hours to...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Database management between IBM Controller SaaS environments

New functionality for database backup and asset restore via administration on Controller Web works great for the environment you are connected to, say replicating Live (CCR01) to Test (CCR02) on the Production environment. This functionality does ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

Correction needed for Actuality selection when running import data with loop on Web

On the upload tab, when running import data with loop enabled on Web, you are presented with the actuality name from the context of the location you are connected against. However, when you select the drop down menu button next to the actuality na...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect

Increase timeout for 'Delete Data change details older than (days)', when trimming large XDBAUDIT table

When customers have very large amounts of information inside their data audit log (i.e. when their XDBAUDIT SQL table gets very large) then the button "Delete" does not work (inside "Maintain - System Audit Log - Configuration"). Specifically: T...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

Missing support for Microsoft SQL server 2025

When will SQL Server 2025 be supported as Database in Cognos Controller (CCR)? As of today SQL server 2022 is most recent listed in clarity reports for CCR 11.1.1 Customers upgrading to most recent Windows environments are asking for SQL 2025 supp...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

On Controller Web 'Preview' or 'Review Errors' screen, provide the amount that has been imported to the 'Perform Reconciliation' difference account or accounts.

It's important for users importing and Group finance to know what amount is being created from the 'Perform Reconciliation' function when included in the Controller web import spec. Currently there is no reference on the 'Preview' or 'Review Error...
6 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

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