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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Fetching values into empty customized reports in Excel without data entry

When a report that was customized in Excel via the Report-Function with Column and Row definitions is opened as an empty Report in Excel, the system tries to fetch data. This leads to an extended lead time for opening reports. There is no addition...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Disable System Setting "Delete Journal Enties"

Disable System Setting "Delete Journal Enties" We were able to disable the delete button, but after that the users can not further adjust journal entries. And we came to know that : If you want to stop users deleting journals then they will be clo...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Access Management - Audit Log

*Please contact me on my email : Areej.Al-Suht@ArabBank.com.jo We think it would be a plus to have a log file which specifies who logged in to the system and in which date with the IP address and the user name for the admin to be aware of those tr...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

"Automatic journal types as Base" box ticked and remembered for every session

Request to have "Automatic journal types as Base" box ticked and remembered for every session
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

New currency conversion method

We are not able to calculate the needed key measures when we operate with multiple currencies. As an example, on group level we have to eliminate the currency conversion factor to calculate the correct key performance indicators, ex. growth from l...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Data upload Rollback feature

Dear Team, At the moment there is no feature with in controller that can restrict import of the data If there is an error in any of the data entry. For e.g If user is encountering any single error while doing data upload .. the Controller must not...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Anju Enhancement requests for Data entry historical rates

This is regarding the “Data entry historical rates is still possible when locking the company and locking the period for Data Entry we can make that menu point unavailable in security groups for user groups to avoid entering historical rates tho...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Remove requirement for one bit-mapped index in Oracle database

Please consider removing the need for Controller to have a bit-mapped index in an Oracle database. Requiring Oracle Enterprise may be more than is required to run Controller.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

AFCs not showing in total column

When using Trial Balance with Drilldown, AFC values do not show in the total column. However, they will appear in the group column if show consolidated group has been selected in the trial balance with drill down "Details" options. Please consider...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Controller FAP to continue do IP even due CAMID is missing from controller database

The FAP process for IP should not stop for a error if a user is not found in authentication source, or the XCAMUSER table is missing values for CAMID. The FAP process should jump over that user account and continue with the rest of the accounts. I...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release