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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Password requirements

The IT security policy in many organizations have detailed requirements regarding password complexity and how this is handled. The complexity of passwords set up in Controller is not enough. Except what's already possible to limit regarding pw in ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Fast way to lock historical rates

For every acquisition I have to lock currency rates within the acquisition register and under Group/Data Entry/Historical Rates. If we acquire a group of entities it could be quite some entries.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

daily backup

Provide a automated daily backup onto the SFTP folder, instead of multiple call logging
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Adding success message in Citrix Web page for password change

Could you please add success message for password change in IBM Citrix page as requested in IBM case TS006838901
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

On Cloud - AD Management Portal - Create New Users Info Button To Update

when creating new user in AD Management Portal, If you clicked on all the info button besides the field but nothing pops out. we are unable to tell if the button doesn't have information or fails to work because there is no behaviour. Can those i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

User Logon/off log records to identify mode of access (client, excel-linked, web)

when Administrator reviews user log on records, there can be multiple logon and logoff records around the same time when user log in to application and excel link. But Administrator is unable to identify which record is for which mode of access. W...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

To add new feature to allow different posting account in E300

Current design in E300 only allows one posting account for change in shareholding %, i.e. Acct Change in Own % field. Customer would like this to be enhanced so that they can specify separate accounts for increase and decrease/dilution in sharehol...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Enable both on-demand consolidations AND scheduling of database optimizations

Per Case TS006539359 we found out that the BATCHMODE ON/OFF entry found in: Maintain > Configuration > General > Server Preferences tab oddly controls scheduling of both consolidation run timing and whether you can schedule a database opt...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

One View of All Users in Environment

Hi, So, we subscribe to 3 software with IBM Cloud - Planning Analytics, Controller and Cognos Analytics. Users are added in PA and then in Controller. Controller needs that we add users to Controller Users Group in the limited use BI. Since we use...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Company status not changing to processing after a journal upload

Company status not changing to “processing” after a journal upload (because General setting is set as reconcile in REPO) – When using the journal upload functionality the system should behaves like when doing a posting directly in Controller...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration