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Monthly values Controller web

When our customers work with budgets/forecasts in Controller they must enter/import YTD-values instead of monthly values. This is great how it works in Classic. Enter monthly values in specific forms -> storing YTD by adding last month YTD.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Make it easier to run Consolidations automatically

Our main User Group (Group Consolidation team) are aware of the ability to create automatic Consolidaitions via menu "Consolidation With Status" and "Schedule job...". But they want to create Consolidations on batch/schedule them in a more automat...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Controller to support multiple domains authentication

We're now at the situation that acquisition brought in new domain of user profiles in Active Directory Server, however the current authentication method we're adopting Windows authentication is unable to support multiple domains for authentication...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

streamline importing of custom properties from data assets in IKC catalog to data product hub

for data assets governed/published in IKC/CP4D, custom properties are not propagated to DPH when it is created as a product in DPH. Rather, one needs to create custom properties in CP4D for Data Product (which cannot be configured in CP4D). Our us...
4 months ago in Data Product Hub 0 Future consideration

allow adding a downloadable data products that is sourced from uploaded CSV files (uploaded to a project in CP4D or directly to DPH)

Currently the only way to add a CSV product to DPH is of it is sourced from object storage siuch as azure adls, IBM clos or Amazon S3. The reason for this is the following: 1. add more flexibility to adding products (especially for demos or testin...
4 months ago in Data Product Hub 0 Future consideration

Expose APIs and/or ability to create rules populate custom properties at the asset level

The feature is to allow implementaors to automate the population of custom properties at the asset level using APIs and/or custome rules. For example,let us say custom properties were created for asset type, such as origin or security-level, then ...
4 months ago in Data Product Hub 0 Future consideration

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Schedule FAP data mart start / stop and update structure

Functionality to schedule FAP update structure and full publish ( data mart start and stop). Currently user need to regularly go to FAP client and click update structure. Case Number: TS000073673
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration