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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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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...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 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...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under 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...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Deliver server installation as Docker package

With Microsoft looking to implement support for Docker (docker.com), it could be nice to have a delivery option as a Docker package. Not necessarily via dockerhub, it's possible to load and use a docker image from a downloaded file as well.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Standard forms to have a formulae to auto select opening balance of actuality and period selected

change the way the form structure works to allow the first column in a standard form to be the OB actuality for the actuality the form is opened in.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Open Login Window for CCR as soon as Excel File Opens

Dear IBM Team, we do have a customer, who would like to open the Cognos Controller Login as soon as he opens a Excel Worksheet. I've tried the approach vie Keyboard shortcut:Application.SendKeys "%(Y2)(Y4)", True but sadly the ammount of installed...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Unable to have more than 1 user entering data for Investment Elimination Template (IET)

For shareholdings template and investment elimination entries, this window can only be opened only by 1 user at a time. User is in UAT stage and time is tight. Hence waiting to key into the Shareholdings register and investment template is not eff...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 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...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 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.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Built in cube reporting engine so there is no need for TM1

Controller users are required to use external products for cube reporting
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration