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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Increase timeout for Cognos Controller on Cloud & Excel Add-ins

Even when users are actively working on Excel for more than 60 minutes following a report refresh, the Add-ins prompt them to log out and re-login with their IBMid. This occasionally causes Excel to hang, forcing users to end the task via the Task...
27 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Lock direct form access for the correction of journals in Controller Web Reconciliation tab

For reconciliation errors ‘Between Accounts’ and ‘Opening Balances’, users are able to correct a journal reconciliation error by opening a form and entering an amount to correct the reconciliation error. This amount, as entered by form, appears in...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts in Controller Web

Where Controller Classic setting ‘Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts’ is enabled. This setting is ignored by Controller Web. For example, in Controller Web, if a user posts a value in the journal to a movement account, on save,...
3 months 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...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

IF function - Account mappings Controller Web

Cognos Classic includes a feature that maps an account code from an imported to a TB code based on whether it is a Dr or Cr. This is executed through an IF function which directs the balances to the correct Cognos code based on the imported value....
5 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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 ...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Setting up of customizable thresholds for reconciliation review

It will be helpful if there is an option within Cognos to configure thresholds (both in absolute (i.e. in AED) and relative terms (i.e. as a percentage of the reported values). Any individual reconciliation within the 'Intercompany Balances' recon...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Standard forms with dimensions in rows in Controller Web

Many customers are using 2-4 free dimensions and have at least one standard form using dimension (expanded) in the row definition. This is not supported in Controller Web where you can have only one dimension in column (and another in filter).
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Controller on Cloud - Expose SQL DB to allow import of data via staging table and import spec

We have a Controller On-Prem customer considering migrating to Controller on Cloud. They have built a small app that loads data from their ERP into Controller via the Staging Table, and then initiates a data load via an Import Spec. In order for t...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release