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Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

Request for Automated SSL/TLS Certificate Management and Keystore Renewal for IBM Cognos Controller & Controller Web

With industry standards restricting commercial SSL/TLS certificate validity to a maximum of 398 days (and moving towards shorter 90 to 200-day cycles), the manual overhead required to update certificates across IBM Cognos Controller (CCR) and Cont...
2 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

The "date" field reference within the Investment Elimination Template needs to accommodate groups with year ends that are not December, but closing in period 12

To illustrate the current issue, take a group reporting year end against 30 September.  This will then mean that period 2612 belongs to September 2026 for the finance year 25/26.  However, when inputting entry to the investment eliminati...
10 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Removal of text reference to "Cognos" within the URL required for local client installation for IBM Cloud

The following URL is an example illustration, https://customer112.controller.ibmcloud.com/ibmcognos/controllerserver.  Rather than this URL referencing "IBMcognos", could the inclusion of "cognos" please be removed?  When running the cli...
10 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Detailed Status and Logging for API-Based Data Loads in Controller

Current Challenge In the Classic Client, detailed log reports are available for data uploaded to Controller. Similarly, Controller Web provides status and detailed logs for consolidations, manual web imports, and a summary of Classic imports, incl...
10 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Self-Service Restart, Status Monitoring, and Alert Notifications for API-Batch Service in Controller Web

Description Currently, when the API-Batch Service encounters issues or stops functioning, users must raise an IBM support case and wait for the SRE team to manually restart the service. This dependency introduces significant delays, especially dur...
10 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Possibility to hide rows in standard forms CCR web

We ask for a possibility to hide a row, that's included in a row definition, in a standard form in CCR web. Maybe a tick box in the row definition where you can select/deselect if a row should be visible in the standard form when you are reporting...
2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Under review

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. 

Out of the box analysis functionality. Include cube viewer from PA in report tab in Controller web. E.g. Trial balance based on FAP cube – offers full flexibility in analysis, ideally with predefined subsets for each form. This idea was raised out...
6 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

Improve IBM Controller Excel timeout experience

Current Challenge When IBM Controller Excel times out, users face two issues: Closing the logon pop-up triggers an error (see screenshot "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"). Attempting to log on again without restarting Ex...
10 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Is a defect

Controller Web import specifications must allow the reuse of a column for different field definitions to avoid customers having to produce duplicate columns

In the version 11.1.1100.47 and forwards it is not possible for in import specification created in Controller Web, to re-use a column in a file 2 or more times for a field in the import spec. This was possible in previous versions. The fact that t...
9 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release

Automated Monitoring and Recovery for Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service

Description Currently, the Finance Analytics Publisher (FAP) Service requires manual monitoring and restarting through Controller Web. There is no alert mechanism to notify stakeholders when the service stops due to errors, resulting in a highly m...
10 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Planned for future release