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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Time Stamp for password change

So the AD Admin Website https://manager.controller.ibmcloud.com is used to change and manage the passwords for users. We need a Timestamp of when the password was last changed. IBM says the password can be changed only once in 24 hours. Without a ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Exclusive security for historical rates on journals

One of our consumers asked us to block access to the Historical Rates table, but leave it available for puting data on journal entries only, so users cannot see they can put historical rates for all accounts that allows that.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Security group settings impacting controller web

Menu security group has a significant impact on enabling "SUBMIT" TAB in controller web. No knowledge base report detail which menu items should be given READ access to get the SUBMIT Tab enabled in Web.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Reports in Cognos Controller Web

In Controller Web, reports developed in classic version are not made available. instead users have to develop their own report. This defeats the whole purpose of decentralising reporting site. Without any standard reports users are deprived of rev...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

form Lock enhancement

Currently on every monthly closing we need to run DB optimization for form lock issue and waste lot of closing time
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Being able to change all variables on an IC transaction on Cognos WEB

When clicking on an IC transaction in Cognos web, only the amounts are editable. There's no option to alter the counter dimension and counter company. This is the case in classic Cognos in Excel. Only way to "change" it now is to copy the whole li...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Is a defect

Data Classification Labelling

Our company has an IT security requirement that all data has a classification whether it is electronic or printed on paper. There are four different classifications of data and the user should be allowed to choose one. The label would need to be i...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Axiforma Font

Adding the Axiforma font in Excel from Cognos Controller.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

No Drill-Down information exists when language is for example RU

In import file customer use in one column account name in russian. After imported Controller Web shows "No Drill-Down information exists" message. entire_row column in wdrilldowdetail18 table: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><java...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

Increased Character Count for Journal Text when doing Import of General Ledger Journal

Using Transfer>External Data>Import General Ledger Journals, there is a character limit of 255 on the journal text. This is very short for a journal text. Also to note, is much shorter than what is allowed if User were to manually create the...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration