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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Blank substitution lookup table - Controller WEB

Hi Lab In Cognos Controller WEB, we are creating lookup tables for import from Excel/csv-files. These import files contain rows where intercompany data has no counterpart information (blank). In Controller Classic we normally translate this blank ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Import journals while reporting takes place in a form

This enhancement regards Error 47 "The form containing the account is locked for update" inside 'Import of External Data' report. In a reporting process countries report their data in forms (REPO) while group accounting performs adjustments in jou...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Helping manage the icons that appear for

We are a large company with heavy dependency on Cognos Controller, for our consolidation process. Since IBM cannot hold more than 4 DBs in 1 environment, we have 5 - Dev 1, 2 & 3 (2&3) being for reference and Staging and Prod. With all the...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Import from Staging Area - ability to import the same "file" several times

It would be very useful to be able to more easy rerun batchjob/importing a file from staging area. After looking at the Log report - after one import from Staging Area - it would be good to be able to rerun the report. For example if the period wa...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

able to select possibility not to see counter companies in reports - regarding companies not connected to the selected consolidation structure

See case TS004265604 for all details
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Controller Email Feature to connect to Controller Appl instead of direct to SMTP server

controller client to send email instruction via Application Server to SMTP server, instead of current design where client machine calling SMTP server directly. IT policy does not allow users to connect directly to SMTP server. With the change, use...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Citrix Storefront security management

Currently, all icons on Citrix Storefront are completely visible to all users whether they need to see them or not. The idea would be to map users in a way that specific icons are visible only to specific users Prod-CC to all FAP to Admins only De...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Import Group journals in Cognos Controller using CSV

Please, provide the ability to import Group Journals using Type of Journal = G (Group) in IBM Cognos Controller using CSV files from Transfer / External Data / Import General Journals. G option is allowed to be used but it does not work. It will...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Command Center: Alternate/default e-mail "Sender Address"

Within Command Center, the E-mail Notification feature allows for "Receiving of e-mail confirmations" which effectively sends the confirmation e-mail to the user from the user (due to the address defined within Maintain > Rights > Users). Th...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Transfer G/L journals data from TM1 to Controller

Request to push data from an external application (e.g. Cognos TM1 10.1) into Cognos Controller 10.1, in form of General Ledger journal entries (which means journal types are specified). Currently there is only "REPO" type data push functionality ...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration