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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Scheduling Reports built in Controller (extraction in Excel)

Scheduling reports in Excel is the first step in the process of preparing Consolidated Financial Statements for the business leaders. Each business leader receives a Consolidated workbook with multiple tabs (BS, P&L and CF) for the companies, ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

fGetTransVal to be used also for IC Margin accounts

To be able to make reports on Intercompany Profit Calculations, it would be very helpful to be able to retrieve the Margins entered in Cognos Controller. The accounts are defined as IC accounts with M-code and the Margin is entered as Transaction ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Decimal percentages should be allowed on Allocation Control Tables Source Tab

Currently, only full numbers are allowed on the Source Tab of the Allocation Control Tables. Customer needs to post the percentage of 12.5% to the target. However, being unable to enter 12.5% on the Source tab, User needs to set the Source tab to ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Remove 'Idle timeout' from IBM Controller cloud environment

The new IBM Cloud environment has the ridiculous setting that users are kicked out after 15 minutes being idle.Users cannot logon anymore and can not report there data. IBM will rapidly lose customers when this is not solved. Unacceptable that thi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Increase company code length from 6 to 9

current controller company code is limited to 6 characters. user has multiple consolidation types in which have used up alot of the alphanumeric combinations as group codes between consolidation types should be different. When it comes to group re...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Linked actuality currency conversion also for Group Journals

Currently Currency-conversion and consolidation is not done for Group-journals, stored on GAC's. In the old consolidation model this was not possible, in NYKOMO this should be possible
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Unencrypted password in udl file

We have discovered that in udl files the password is unencrypted. When discovered during a penetration test this is considered a high risk.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

No security rights for GROUP – can’t run some of the reports where Group choice is required to pick Company

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over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

iii. How-to “unpack” dril-down from XML column at web import tables for example to FAP

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over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

How to get rid of „Real-time updates ..” message – even on one server installation

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over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration