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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Forms in populate should be in same order than Reorder in Classic Client

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over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Native API connectors from IBM CCR (On Cloud) to PowerBI

It is popular today for Native API connectors for a variety of systems and understanding that an organization may not utilize solely 1 or 2 systems from a principal. Hence, the need for native API connectors between various principals. Such would ...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Application Performance Dashboard to monitor some parameters and get alerts when approaching critical states

Currently, when the application performance goes down, we only get to know it by the feedback we get from the users, when they have already been hit by slowness or instability accessing the application or running reports/processes within it. In or...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Period locked indication in Cognos Web

There is a feature to lock a period in Cognos Controller. As a result of the same, when a user tries to amend any data, it does not allow to update/input any value. Same period is unlocked in Cognos Web for same entity. Web user is unable to updat...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

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

Edit counter dimension in Cognos web

We use dimensions in PL and BAL reporting and therefore also counter dimension in intercompany transactions. It is possible to enter and update this variable in the thick client, but not in the web client. As this is crucial in our intercompany re...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Have a Controller Formula on Excel-Link report to show which Database the last refresh was done from

Users are now accessing 2 databases at a time, after refreshing the Excel-Link reports and saving, a second User using the report is unable to identify which database is the data refreshed belongs to. Currently Users need to rename the file after ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Use Cognos Analytics security groups to limit access to different Cognos Databases

When authenticating cognos controller users against the cognos analytics security (linked to AD) using CAM authentication by default every user in the Cognos User group has access to every data source configured in the Controller configuration. It...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Setting up of customizable thresholds for reconciliation review

It will be helpful if there is an option within Cognos to configure thresholds (both in absolute (i.e. in AED) and relative terms (i.e. as a percentage of the reported values). Any individual reconciliation within the 'Intercompany Balances' recon...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release