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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Currently locking is available by period and by company, and not by consolidation type

In a multi consolidation type/multi group scenario implementation it is possible that due to human error a consolidation is run for a consolidation type/Group even though the numbers for that group have been finalised and as a result of this conso...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Company ending date should not impact user rights

We have noticed that when setting an ending date in the company structure, the company is automatically removed from the security rights. This is clearly a misbehaviour since you still need access to the company to view historical data.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Movement Account Audit Log

During 'system audit' the auditors are expecting to see a User Id assigned to all structural changes made within the chart of accounts. The user ID is populated when updated via the Maintain Account process but NOT when the Generate Movement Accou...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Ability to download / upload Custom Palette

User develops Custom Global Palettes (Manage > Customization > Palette > New custom palette) in DEV environment and creates reports using the custom palettes. User exports new reports from DEV to UAT. Custom Palettes are not included in...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Keep layout when sending Trial Balance to Excel

In a Trial Balance in Controller there are lines (between rows) to display which accounts are summation accounts. When sending the report to Excel the layout disappear. Consequently, the report in Excel are almost impossible to read. My customers ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Period Interval in Custom Reports to expand

current list of period intervals are YTD, 1,2,3,4,6,12 and NPY. It happens that user requires interval 5 & 7 and is unable to find, hence has to work out the interval 5 & 7 values in order to present in excel-linked report. Hence, user is ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

fGetTransVal to be used also for IC Margin accounts

To be able to make reports on Intercompany Profit Calculations, it would be very helpful to be able to retrieve the Margins entered in Cognos Controller. The accounts are defined as IC accounts with M-code and the Margin is entered as Transaction ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Remove 'Idle timeout' from IBM Controller cloud environment

The new IBM Cloud environment has the ridiculous setting that users are kicked out after 15 minutes being idle.Users cannot logon anymore and can not report there data. IBM will rapidly lose customers when this is not solved. Unacceptable that thi...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Unencrypted password in udl file

We have discovered that in udl files the password is unencrypted. When discovered during a penetration test this is considered a high risk.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Cognos Controller AFC is not transferred into FAP properly

When transferring AFC values from Cognos Controller into FAP, figures are not transferred properly and therefore cannot be used in reporting purposes. For example, consolidation data is wrongly calculated within TM1 because each consolidation leve...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration