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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Controller Web report to suppress zero value

Controller Web should have a Company Journal Across report equivalent that eliminates all zero values account. The report will not be too lengthy.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Drop support for SQL Server 2012 and consider removing the use of 'legacy cardinality estimator'

Have had a few discussions with SQL Server dba:s recently during upgrades about the need to change the default sql server settings. There were some changes introduced in SQL Server 2014 that made performance really drop unless running in SQL Serve...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Track changes in structure/row definition/column definition/Axes for user defined reports in controller

We need to track the changes of structure/row definition/column definition/Axes and report changes for user defined reports
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

How to customize summary information in dashboard

I have created a country wise crosstab dashboard with 2 measure values where one measure value is picking up the maximum value on database for considering at month level (for eg: if there are 100 rows of data for a column in particular month is av...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

System Audit Log for Share Register & Invt Elim Entries

Entries input through function Data Entry - Shareholdings and Investments are not tracked in system audit log.
about 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add Lookup Tables to the Structure Changes that are tracked

Our external auditors are adding controls to the mapping of data (trial balance and statisical data) into Cognos. In order to elminate the need for the walk-through of negative and postive testing in Cognos (on a regular basis) it would be helpful...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

No Drill-Down information exists when language is for example RU

In import file customer use in one column account name in russian. After imported Controller Web shows "No Drill-Down information exists" message. entire_row column in wdrilldowdetail18 table: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><java v...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Alignment format of Reports download from Controller

When downloading some standard reports (Eg. Company>Reports>Journals, Group>Reports>Journals, Maintain>Account Structure>Reports, etc.) in excel format from Controller, the alignment of the columns are incorrect. The headers shif...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Ability to add acquired balance sheet and net result in shareholdings

Normally when acquiring a business combination there's an acquired balance sheet needed for cash flow purposes and also eliminating the net result before the acquisition date if the acquired company reports YTD values. Today acquired balance sheet...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration