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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Reference to originating form in reconciliation report ('Between Accounts/Opening Balances' 'and Intercompany Balance'

It will be helpful for the user if the aforementioned reconciliation reports include the form numbers from which the account codes are coming right next to the account codes.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Locking of account codes to prevent data import

Currently, the Cognos allows data entry into account codes that have been locked for data entry when using the "export data" option in cognos controller link (excel add-in). The system should not allow the data to be imported (neither through exce...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Add the Open XLS, XLSX funktion in Reports as it was with the IE Browser enabled

HI Team, cusotmers now have to do 3 clicks instead of 1. Then you run for example an ADHoc report and choose XLS oder XLSX then you can only save the file and openit afterwards. a option to open it directly without saving like IE did this would b...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Excel 2016 in cognos cloud link instead of excel 2013

Upgrade from Excel 2013 to 2016 (when using cognos controller link)
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 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...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

When setting up daily consolidations there should be button to press if you want the consolidations to run every hour

It will save time for the consolidators. We have 5 different actualities that is run every hour during the days of closing and even if I uses the option to set up daily consolidations I need to create 5 consolidations (as we consolidate 5 actualit...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Import Specification Filter to allow Filter with Wildcard by Filename

Customer has a folder where the import csv files are generated. User sometimes forget to remove the old files before scheduling the import. Would help if the filter could filter out the files to load by the filename. (ie. period on the filename so...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Security on Log Reports

One is unable to apply security on the Log Reports. Although a user may be restricted and have specific have rights to certain entities, the same user can open a Data Load Log Report for all entities and therefore gain access to privileged data.
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

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