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Lock shareholdings popup form in Controller Web for editing of transaction dates older than current period

When populating the account connected to investment in group companies the popup window ensure correct values being entered into the data entry form. The feature that allows you to add rows with transaction dates within the current period is a goo...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Requirement for a report that can list for cognos controller of the number of new users and users with changed access rights for a defined time span that can be altered

Requirement for a report that can list for cognos controller of the number of new users and users with changed access rights for a defined time span that can be altered. The report should contain what access rights were removed or added for the us...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Possibility to filter group journals in the group journal table in order to exclude System Reserved journals from the list

It would be beneficial if there is a possibility to filter on Group journals in the Group journal table under the menu Group/Data Entry/Group Journals in order to have a better overview of the journals. If there are many journals posted on a group...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Delivered

Make it possible to warn when modifying users and/or menu groups when license overage is reached

When adding or modifying users or menu groups in Cognos Controller, it would be really handy if the administrative user could get a warning about any possible license violation as a result of the action. For example: Let the user add how many Admi...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Able to break link for Controller Excel-Linked Formulas

scenario: users created excel-linked reports which included excel formulas. Every month, they want to distribute the reports to non-Controller users (usually management level) but to retain excel formulas. So users have to perform "copy+paste valu...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Improve design to reduce xacclock table size but retain the comp locking information

database table size has grown because of company locking records. However, it is not good idea to purge the table information just because multi period locking is in place. When company wish to unlock a period, the company locking should remain in...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

Controller Web 'Refresh' button (to synchronise changes made in classic client) to be inside other tabs where 'Issues' are flagged (like the 'Reconciliation' tab) instead of only inside tab 'Intercompany'

There is a known limitation with Controller Web (see https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/1167568, plus also case TS004629628) where if you make changes in Controller 'classic' client (for example to fix a reconciliation issue) then Controller W...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Drop support for SQL Server 2012 and consider removing the use of 'legacy cardinality estimator'

Have had a few discussions with SQL Server dba:s recently during upgrades about the need to change the default sql server settings. There were some changes introduced in SQL Server 2014 that made performance really drop unless running in SQL Serve...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add official support for Microsoft Hyper-V

It seems as Microsoft Hyper-V is gaining traction as a virtualization engine. Currently Cognos Controller only supports VMWare; but at least BI is supporting Hyper-V, so adding support, at least on a 'compatible' level would be a good thing to have.
over 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under 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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration