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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Calculation of Company Vote %

System currently does not calculate Company Vote %.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Change default CA Datasource type from OLEDB to NativeClient for MSSQL connections

Cognos Controller configuration currently creates datasources in Cognos Analytics using the OLEDB driver for MSSQL connections. Controller by itself requires use of SQL Server Native client, so it would make sense to change the database driver tha...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

UDBR - .setRelativePeriod for target

UDBR issue:.setRelativePeriod not working for target, only work for source. We would pretty much need it for Target as well as we only want it to happen on specific month. for example we want it to happen every year July , target1.setRelativePerio...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

ADM and Service User Account

IBM licensing regulation forces customers to purchase ADM licenses for any user accounts that are created without limitation. This includes service user accounts.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Web Client and 'columns for journals'

The Controller Web Client is currently enabled for 'standard' journal treatment only, it is not currently compatible with 'journals as columns', as defined within submission set up.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Excel link function to retrieve effective ownership and group currency other than immediate group

Currently excel link function cc.fCompOpwnp() to retrieve the effective ownership of an entity to group is limited to immediate group. And the function to retrieve group currency cc.fCompCurr() is also limited to immediate group in one consol type...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Journal Report to generate report for all levels of the selected Groups

User is required to generate report for all subgroups by selecting one subgroup at a time and generate the report. To include option to generate entries for all subgroups under the selected TOP group.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Configuration to prevent company journals from being entered in anything other than local currency

Add to Cognos Controller a configuration setting to prevent users from entering company journals in anything other than local currency.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of a submission for multiple periods

Change status does not allow lock/unlock of multiple submissions. The only option is to lock the full actuality and period.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add control in Controller around adding forms to a form set

It is currently possible to assign a form to a form set without any control. In some cases that form may get associated with two submissions that are assigned to one actuality and Period.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration