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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Status for REPO should not be affected by imported journals

The customer is using period locking on company level for REPO. When submission 1 is closed for the company, a company journal can be entered and this will not affect the status for submission 1. But if the same journal is imported through "Import...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Better functionality in Company structure, Reorder

In Maintain > Company structure – Define, the Reorder-window, the drag-and-drop functionality is very time consuming, in larger groups. Please add the possibility to cut-and-paste row(s) as an alternative to drag-and-drop.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Search functionality in security groups

When changing/creating existing/new security groups for companies (Maintain > Rights > Security groups - Companies) there's no functionality for searching for a company/group company. All searching must be done manually which is very time co...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Standard forms to have a formulae to auto select opening balance of actuality and period selected

change the way the form structure works to allow the first column in a standard form to be the OB actuality for the actuality the form is opened in.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Password requirements

The IT security policy in many organizations have detailed requirements regarding password complexity and how this is handled. The complexity of passwords set up in Controller is not enough. Except what's already possible to limit regarding pw in ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Open Login Window for CCR as soon as Excel File Opens

Dear IBM Team, we do have a customer, who would like to open the Cognos Controller Login as soon as he opens a Excel Worksheet. I've tried the approach vie Keyboard shortcut:Application.SendKeys "%(Y2)(Y4)", True but sadly the ammount of installed...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Attachment of supporting document to journal

There is no functionality to document journal or/and to comment lines in a journal in Cognos Controller. In order to attach supporting documents to journals, the client requested to have that functionality available. It is required to have the com...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Unable to have more than 1 user entering data for Investment Elimination Template (IET)

For shareholdings template and investment elimination entries, this window can only be opened only by 1 user at a time. User is in UAT stage and time is tight. Hence waiting to key into the Shareholdings register and investment template is not eff...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Change default CA Datasource type from OLEDB to NativeClient for MSSQL connections

Cognos Controller configuration currently creates datasources in Cognos Analytics using the OLEDB driver for MSSQL connections. Controller by itself requires use of SQL Server Native client, so it would make sense to change the database driver tha...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

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