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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Able to break link for Controller Excel-Linked Formulas

scenario: users created excel-linked reports which included excel formulas. Every month, they want to distribute the reports to non-Controller users (usually management level) but to retain excel formulas. So users have to perform "copy+paste valu...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Post profit&loss automatically in Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Controller Classic there is a functionality in import specifications to transfer profit&loss automatically to a P&L account in the balance sheet. This functionality does not exist in the WEB import. We would like to see this func...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Forms in populate should be in same order than Reorder in Classic Client

No description provided
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Number of Intercompany differences in Submission Overview

It would be very helpful if a user with lot of companies could view number of intercompany differences directly in the "Submission Overview" instead of opening company by company.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Select multiple periods for copying opening balances

Users have requested the ability to copy forward opening balances for multiple periods.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Controller Web support for "Reconcile by Journal" setting

Currently Controller Web produce an error message if Reconcile is set to be made by Journal Type, also described in the following technote and APAR: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21998917https://www-01.ibm.com/support/entdocview...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Prevent modification of historical Investment register entries

Users are currently allowed to edit any Investment Register entries, regardless of if they are in a historically closed accounting period. This can cause issues when trying to re-run consolidation for previous periods.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Giving option to user to Modify & Save record using Grid View.

Auditors have to perform 100's of tests every year for different auditable entities. As per current configuration, user(auditor) will have to go inside each test to perform test or to use side panlel. Customer is asking to make grid view flexible ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Solutions 3 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 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release