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Scheduling of Import from Flat Files for Daily, Weekly & Monthly

Current settings only allow "Import from Flat Files" to be scheduled for "Execute immediately" or "One Time Only". However, as month end closing are done monthly, There is a need to have the import scheduled Monthly at least. Workaround now is to ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Improve speed and stability of Controller when have large numbers company locks (XACCLOCK table)

If a customer has a complicated company structure (e.g. with many different actualities) then after they create company locks for all their periods/actualities, XACCLOCK becomes absolutely enormous For example, one of our customers has 22 million ...
10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

Extension summation of accounts

The summation for accounts is limited to three summations. It would be highly desirable if the summation would be extended up to 5 or 6 summation accounts. The IFRS standard setter plan to introduce a new structure for the profit & loss and th...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Method to increase idle timeout for Controller Web (currently fixed at 60 minutes)

If a user is logged into Controller Web, but pauses using it (leaving it on screen but idle) they will get a problem if they don't click on anything (in Controller Web) for more than 60 minutes. If using Native authentication, it will just return ...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Company independent lookup tables in controller web

In the client version of cognos controller the possibility exists to create company independent lookup tables by including a temporary field that retrieves the company code in the upload file and link this to the mapping table with the same code. ...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

QTD data in one form.

Our customers report data in QTD format in quarter three as below (cloumns): 1. 01.07.2023-30.09.2023 - Q3 In the period2. 30.09.2023 Q3 YTD3. 01.07.2022-30.09.2022 - Q3 In the period4. 30.09.2022 Q3 YTD It would be useful to be able to set the co...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Reschedule multiple batch jobs (multi-select) at the same time

Our clients use Maintain -> Batch Queue -> Manage in order to reschedule batch jobs in Cognos Controller. They reschedule them to be executed immediately. The jobs are put in a queue which is fine and executed as configured (1 by 1). Unfo...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Status for REPO should not be affected by imported journals

The customer is using period locking on company level for REPO. When submission 1 is closed for the company, a company journal can be entered and this will not affect the status for submission 1. But if the same journal is imported through "Import...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

One View of All Users in Environment

Hi, So, we subscribe to 3 software with IBM Cloud - Planning Analytics, Controller and Cognos Analytics. Users are added in PA and then in Controller. Controller needs that we add users to Controller Users Group in the limited use BI. Since we use...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration