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

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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...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Helping manage the icons that appear for

We are a large company with heavy dependency on Cognos Controller, for our consolidation process. Since IBM cannot hold more than 4 DBs in 1 environment, we have 5 - Dev 1, 2 & 3 (2&3) being for reference and Staging and Prod. With all the...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Disable of option to consol as per method 1 and method 2

Disable method 1 and method 2 for consolidation and want to give only method “according to company structure definition”.
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Report book extraction in excel workbook instead of separate excel files

When running a report book in cognos controller, it would be helpful to have the possibility to generate multiple excel reports in a single report book in 1 excel workbook instead of all single excel files.
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Create a setting to open journals accross for mutliple companies in one excel workbook, instead of multiple workbooks

When Clicking "Group - Reports - Journals Across... AND untick the box 'All Companies - Only One Level', then clicking on 'Company' AND selecting multiple (for example 4) companies AND clicking "Send to Application" The output are 4 separate ex...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Controller Web should be able to run on Oracle

We are running the Cognos Controller 10.4.0 on oracle database12C release 1 but unfortunately that the controller web is not support on Oracle database. Therefore, we cannot use controller web at all even for the users in the oversea who is not ne...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Creating a Level Filter within the reports so that you can say all Level 1s need to match & all Level 2s need to match etc.

Here below a proposal from Global Control to improve the application Cognos Controller. Can you please check with IBM if it is possible to include the functionality here below in the next version of Cognos Controller. Proposal:- At the moment all ...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Improvement of “Log report - Import of External Data”

1) After importing flat files, when we preview the log report on discarded rows it would a lot more easier to find “problematic” row if not only account number was shown, but also its name (Account structure consists of more than 2k items, can...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Allow the sum of Movement Accounts in Controller Web

The Movement Account is compsed of: 1) Main Account, and 2) Movement Extention. When creating the Movement Account we specify what is the main account summation for main accounts, and what is the movement ext summation for movement extentions. The...
about 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration