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No Drill-Down information exists when language is for example RU

In import file customer use in one column account name in russian. After imported Controller Web shows "No Drill-Down information exists" message. entire_row column in wdrilldowdetail18 table: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><java v...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Is a defect

Intercompany report at a group level in one single sheet only instead of multiple worksheets

The report extracted from Report>Intercompany Accounts>Group, is coming for individual companies in separate sheets, even when the report has been extracted at group level, Kindly let us know if the said sheets can be combined and the interc...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Order of Dimension Structure Items in the Tree Structure Report

The order of the items of the Dimensions in the generated Tree Structure Report. We have reordered the imported dimensions on the reorder tab, but the new order does not reflect accordingly on Tree Structure Report. Currently, it is using the crns...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Delivered

How to customize summary information in dashboard

I have created a country wise crosstab dashboard with 2 measure values where one measure value is picking up the maximum value on database for considering at month level (for eg: if there are 100 rows of data for a column in particular month is av...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Add Lookup Tables to the Structure Changes that are tracked

Our external auditors are adding controls to the mapping of data (trial balance and statisical data) into Cognos. In order to elminate the need for the walk-through of negative and postive testing in Cognos (on a regular basis) it would be helpful...
over 3 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

To add new feature to allow different posting account in E300

Current design in E300 only allows one posting account for change in shareholding %, i.e. Acct Change in Own % field. Customer would like this to be enhanced so that they can specify separate accounts for increase and decrease/dilution in sharehol...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Enable both on-demand consolidations AND scheduling of database optimizations

Per Case TS006539359 we found out that the BATCHMODE ON/OFF entry found in: Maintain > Configuration > General > Server Preferences tab oddly controls scheduling of both consolidation run timing and whether you can schedule a database opt...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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

Import from Staging Area - ability to import the same "file" several times

It would be very useful to be able to more easy rerun batchjob/importing a file from staging area. After looking at the Log report - after one import from Staging Area - it would be good to be able to rerun the report. For example if the period wa...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release