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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Exclusive security for historical rates on journals

One of our consumers asked us to block access to the Historical Rates table, but leave it available for puting data on journal entries only, so users cannot see they can put historical rates for all accounts that allows that.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security group settings impacting controller web

Menu security group has a significant impact on enabling "SUBMIT" TAB in controller web. No knowledge base report detail which menu items should be given READ access to get the SUBMIT Tab enabled in Web.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Reports in Cognos Controller Web

In Controller Web, reports developed in classic version are not made available. instead users have to develop their own report. This defeats the whole purpose of decentralising reporting site. Without any standard reports users are deprived of rev...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Import Group journals in Cognos Controller using CSV

Please, provide the ability to import Group Journals using Type of Journal = G (Group) in IBM Cognos Controller using CSV files from Transfer / External Data / Import General Journals. G option is allowed to be used but it does not work. It will...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Suport Multiple data marts in Controller FAP fully

A customer publishes several datamarts from a single source. Structures are updated in Controller and the user goes into FAP administration and tries to update structures on all datamarts concurrently. Sometimes this will fail because the temporar...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Future consideration

Enhancement Request Azure PAAS service for SQL environment

Hi, More and more customers are heading up to Azure with their on prem IBM environments. We get more questions of: Can we use Azure PAAS platform or Azure SQL Services for our IBM Cognos databases. Does IBM plan on investigate these services from ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to Add Special Characters Such as $ to Account Code

Currently, our company has started using special characters such for accounts as we have run out of numbers. These new accounts with numbers and special characters (like $) can not be entered into Controller.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under 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
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Account description available in Controller web

It would be great to have the possibility to see an account description on one account in Controller Web.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Report book extraction in excel workbook instead of separate excel files

When running a report book in cognos controller, it would be helpful to have the possibility to generate multiple excel reports in a single report book in 1 excel workbook instead of all single excel files.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration