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Search results: Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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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. ...
almost 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...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

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 ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Starting time – about 1 minute to open web

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almost 6 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

Reports>Intercompany report

1. If a company reports two rows with the same counterpart and account but different transaction currencies and the counterpart does not report anything, the report sum up the two amounts with different currencies and then creates a useless amount...
over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under 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...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Period 13 addition needed to company structure for FAP publish

The FAP client is currently restricted to 12 periods when defining company structures to publish and does not cater for groups reporting over 13 periods. The message presented by the FAP Client is "End period must have a valid month. Last two digi...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Unable to have more than 1 user entering data for Investment Elimination Template (IET)

For shareholdings template and investment elimination entries, this window can only be opened only by 1 user at a time. User is in UAT stage and time is tight. Hence waiting to key into the Shareholdings register and investment template is not eff...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration