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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Reversal Journal Function should Auto Reverse Historical Rates as well

When using the Reverse Journal Function, journal is reversed at current rate. Resulting in a difference in reconciliation between the current and historical rate. Current work around is going back a period and set the journal type to R-Reversing a...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

CCR Web to update for changes in structures made via client

To enhance Web so that changes in structures made via CCR client can be view instantly by web users without the need to log off & log on Web.
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Excel 2016 in cognos cloud link instead of excel 2013

Upgrade from Excel 2013 to 2016 (when using cognos controller link)
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

RDS on SQL Server support for Cognos Controller

We plan to upgrade Cognos Controller from 10.3 to 10.4.2 as version 10.3 is reaching its EOL. For this upgrade, on Database side we look for option to go with AWS RDS for SQL server. I have logged a case TS005705990 to check if RDS SQL DB is suppo...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Cognos Controller on Cloud to keep users Favorites on next login. (to retain data on the rich tiers)

The current design of Controller on Cloud is not to retain data on the rich tiers. This means that users personally added Favorites are gone on next login.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

End your own disconnected session

If you log in and you have an existing active session, Cognos Controller displays a warning message. You can end the active session and start a new one. Many users face the issue of being disconnected from a session and are unable to login until t...

Security on Log Reports

One is unable to apply security on the Log Reports. Although a user may be restricted and have specific have rights to certain entities, the same user can open a Data Load Log Report for all entities and therefore gain access to privileged data.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Controller Web - ability to use more than 13 periods for Data Entry forms

Currently, if you try to open a data entry form (in Controller Web) for period 14 or 15, then you get a message “Internal Server Error ... fsid STATUS: 500 ... Unexpected error”. It works OK if you open the same data entry form for period 12 or 13...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

Controller Web - Automatic refresh of Counterpart information, without having to manually press 'Refresh' button

Customer has found that (in Controller Web) the values/entries inside 'Counterpart' are not updated in real-time. This means that the information/figures displayed are wrong! ++++++++++++++++++++++ Example: When looking at company #1102, inside th...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Real-time updates in Controller Web, for changes made in Controller classic, relating to tabs such as 'Reconciliation', 'Intercompany' and 'Status'

This enhancement request is linked to another one (https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/BACC-I-275) - However, I was asked to created it (by IBM Support) because it is subtly different. There is a known limitation with Controller Web (se...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release