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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Controller Web to have all Controller Classic features

Controller Web 104.1 should have all of the features available through Controller classic. Every application is moving towards achieving a web foot print and HTML5 compatibility. Users are loosing confidence on Controller Classic as other vendors ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Timezone for Cloud should be matching to Local Timezone

Currently all Controller-on-Cloud server (for all customers) are in UTC time-zone without the ability to change to reflect the Local date and time (eg. UTC +8). When reading when the reports were last refreshed or generated or saved, it is confusi...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Allow multiple users in Investment register at the same time

Multiple users should be able to access the Investment register, so that they don't need to wait for somebody to be done entering their new investment values.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Method to increase idle timeout for Controller Web (currently fixed at 60 minutes)

If a user is logged into Controller Web, but pauses using it (leaving it on screen but idle) they will get a problem if they don't click on anything (in Controller Web) for more than 60 minutes. If using Native authentication, it will just return ...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

CSV upload of consolidations to batch queue

The area of interest is the Consolidation batch queue. We have to consolidate all actualities and periods, both monthly and weekly including linked actualities on a quarterly basis. It can be time consuming uploading the consolidations into the ba...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Embedded report library default configuration into installation default / config utility

Since the embedded report library should be the main source of system reports from Controller 11.0, please make it the default configuration, or possible to configure in Controller Configuration. For example: Updating the CA server URL in Controll...
9 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

FAP Client notifications when Data mart goes down due to an error.

Real life example, date mart stops working at 18:00. The next day you check the data and notice that they don't match. The cause turns out to be that Fap Cline has stopped working. It would be very helpful to add notifications when Data Mart goes ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

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

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almost 5 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...
almost 6 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 ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release