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Cognos Analytics: Upgrade PDF version of generated reports

Cognos Analytics generates PDF version 1.4 by default. Customer is trying to digitally sign this PDF using a third party application and it requires PDF version to be at least 1.5 or higher. Is there any way to upgrade PDF version of reports gener...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Unlock all periods should be moved/removed

The "unlock all periods" checkmark in "change multi period locking" menu is too easy to press on accident, it should be moved to a different menu or there should be set an additional security measure where additional access should be given to be a...
12 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

per-tenant filename settings in MT Cognos

We have some customers who wish to set their report name format to include the date. Other customers prefer to use the same report name so that older versions are overwritten. We used to be able to allow per-customer name formats when we used dedi...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Sons font (Open Type Fonts) is not supporting in excel and PDF

Our tenant requires that Sons fonts be available for PDF and Excel report outputs. Since these are the JPMC standard fonts, could you please make them available in those formats?
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Functionality already exists

Chart - Dark Outlook

Idea Details Problem statement / pain points (real-life scenario): When Cognos reports containing charts are distributed by email, the legend text is not visible for users who have enabled dark mode in Outlook.For example, in the attached screensh...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration

Allow a report to be updated with an updated XML Spec (Open from clipboard) and saved without losing the report outputs and history

Sometimes, when promoting report changes from Pre-Prod to Production, it is necessary to bring an XML Report Spec into the environment. Currently, if you bring a report spec in and open it from the clipboard, then save the report, it removes all o...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Possibility to use threshold for Real Diff. (=transaction currency amount) in IC reports

When running the Group/Reconcile/Intercompany Balances Report we are only interested in the Real difference, i.e. the difference in the reported amount between a debtor and a creditor in the transaction currency . The IC report includes however bo...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Lock direct form access for the correction of journals in Controller Web Reconciliation tab

For reconciliation errors ‘Between Accounts’ and ‘Opening Balances’, users are able to correct a journal reconciliation error by opening a form and entering an amount to correct the reconciliation error. This amount, as entered by form, appears in...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Column reordering functionality

This is a requirement to give a functionality to the users to reorder the columns in the html report output and ability to download that into excel / pdf versions. This is also one of the requirement being requested by Business on one of the project.
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 2 Planned for future release

Allowing Calculation Accounts to by run by Closing Versions

When running Calculation Reports, Users need to select journal types one by one manually. They would prefer to be able to select all the journals per Closing version instead so that they are sure nothing is mis-selected or left out. This report is...
11 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration