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Customisation of reconciliation reports

Cognos should allow customisation of the reconciliation reports ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' and 'Intercompany Balance' reports) to include the space for sign-off, name and designation of the preparer and reviewer/approver, along with the ...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Capability to provide review comments against individual analysis/forms

It would be helpful if the Controller allows the reviewing entity/reviewer to provide review comments against individual submissions (forms or analysis within the form, where applicable) reported by the subsidiaries in Cognos. The reporting entity...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Reference to originating form in reconciliation report ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' 'and Intercompany Balance'

It will be helpful for the user if the aforementioned reconciliation reports include the form numbers from which the account codes are coming right next to the account codes.
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Locking of account codes to prevent data import

Currently, the Cognos allows data entry into account codes that have been locked for data entry when using the "export data" option in cognos controller link (excel add-in). The system should not allow the data to be imported (neither through exce...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

DB2 z/OS LOAD utility fail in utilinit holds UTUT status

LOAD REPLACE LOG(YES) fails due to share locks/claims being held on tablespace but leaves tables in UTUT status which makes in inaccessible. Suggest that the UTUT is removed or changed to UTRW and can attempt UTUT again upon restart of the utility...
over 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Wordcloud interactivity

Currently, a word cloud is filtered by the filters in the "all tabs" or "this tab" pane. When a user applies a filter on another visualization, the words in the cloud will be highlighted. We would like to have the ability in the properties to opti...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

DSNRXXXX tables userID case sensitive problem

Hello,This enhancement request is referenced to PMR 17878,001,862 . Please review PMR 17878,001,862 . We are using db2 10 for z/OS and external security -RACF- on this system . DB2 user's distributed connection type is JDBC / ODBC. They reach db2 ...
over 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

EXPLAIN Authority - Include Explain of Dynamic Stmt Cache

Include Explain of Dynamic Statement Cache with the EXPLAIN authority or create a new authority that has EXPLAIN plus EXPLAIN STMTCACHE but not all the authority of SQLADM (ie update of DB2 Catalog Tables)
over 9 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE Allow implicit PACKAGE BIND by the application

ADMIN_MOVE_TABLE change to allow an implicit PACKAGE BIND by the application. Currently Db2 marks the PACKAGE (SYSCAT.PACKAGES) as inoperative by marking VALID = 'X' which requires an explicit bind. This causes an outage in a 24x7 environment. S...
over 5 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration