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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Application Performance Dashboard to monitor some parameters and get alerts when approaching critical states

Currently, when the application performance goes down, we only get to know it by the feedback we get from the users, when they have already been hit by slowness or instability accessing the application or running reports/processes within it. In or...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

FAP Service.properties - Password Encryption

Hi, at our client Atlantic Group d.d. during upgrade of PA,CA,CC client set request to eliminate all hardcoded passwords on any file on all models. We successfully eliminated them by using inbuilt encryption (e.g. in PA) or if password was in .bat...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Support for Windows Authentication between Controller and SQL Server

Database administrators more and more frequently disables SQL Server Logins and prefer to use Windows Authentication between server applications and Microsoft SQL Server database servers. In Controller, it would be nice to have turn-key support to...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

MJE Park & Post: include the approval step prior to actually posting the Journal

Currently, journals are posted as soon as the user submits it, and the approval is done after the journal has already affected the Financial statements. In order to reduce the risk of unauthorized journals affecting the numbers, we would like that...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Sensitive Access Report showing users with Write access rights with privilege to enter Journals

We need to validate what are the users that have sensitive access (i.e. Write access rights, with privilege to enter Journals) and to what entities/companies, so we can manage them appropriately and avoid business risks to our Financial statements...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

RDS on SQL Server support for Cognos Controller

We plan to upgrade Cognos Controller from 10.3 to 10.4.2 as version 10.3 is reaching its EOL. For this upgrade, on Database side we look for option to go with AWS RDS for SQL server. I have logged a case TS005705990 to check if RDS SQL DB is suppo...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Cognos Controller on Cloud to keep users Favorites on next login. (to retain data on the rich tiers)

The current design of Controller on Cloud is not to retain data on the rich tiers. This means that users personally added Favorites are gone on next login.
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Future consideration

End your own disconnected session

If you log in and you have an existing active session, Cognos Controller displays a warning message. You can end the active session and start a new one. Many users face the issue of being disconnected from a session and are unable to login until t...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2

Real-time updates in Controller Web, for changes made in Controller classic, relating to tabs such as 'Reconciliation', 'Intercompany' and 'Status'

This enhancement request is linked to another one (https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.aha.io/ideas/BACC-I-275) - However, I was asked to created it (by IBM Support) because it is subtly different. There is a known limitation with Controller Web (se...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Audit log for changes to Journal Types and Closing Versions

Currently there is no audit tracking for any changes for Journal types and Closing versions. If there is any changes to these structures, it changes the data reflected in the reports. Without any audit log, Users won't be able to track the changes...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

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