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Reconcile - Intercompany Profit Report also for companies

The report "Reconcile - Intercompany Profit" is just available for groups. Would it be possible to add it also for companies so as for the report "Reconcile - Intercompany Balances"?
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Intercompany report at a group level in one single sheet only instead of multiple worksheets

The report extracted from Report>Intercompany Accounts>Group, is coming for individual companies in separate sheets, even when the report has been extracted at group level, Kindly let us know if the said sheets can be combined and the interc...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Column heading including name / Planning Analytics Workspace

Client has time dimension on the row, but the column heading does not reflect the name. The client would like the column heading to reflect what is in the rows.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow querying without expansion

Today, when expansions are defined for a collection, the expansions are always applied. However, there are some cases where one would like to submit a query without having it expanded, like a "do not expand" flag. A concrete case is the following:...
over 6 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

End_User "DisplayName" Variable

We currently use $END_USER$ in a WF Action. This variable prints out the User Name for a user, which is typically a User ID for employees. It would be great to have a variable that prints out a corresponding Display name or email address vs the Us...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

form Lock enhancement

Currently on every monthly closing we need to run DB optimization for form lock issue and waste lot of closing time
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

change the color of the font based on custom palletes for chart

Please add the feature to report studio for chart property to change the color of the font align with custom palletes
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment Guide 11

For all previous versions of IBM Cognos an 'Business Intelligence Architecture and Deployment Guide' was available.Now, with IBM Cognos Analytics 11, IBM has drastically changed the way services work and communicate with eachother: Use of URL rewr...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration