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

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Procedure to do a mass delete in the SQL-tables (outside the Controller interface).

It is very much work to execute the UNSUPPORTED solution described hereby. We require this because we perform regularly a datarefresh to another pillar. In the target pillar, other users need access to Controller, and it should taken many hours to...
17 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

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

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...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 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

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...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Change layout in Reconcile Intercompany

1. Users suggest that there shall be some kind of favorites/personal setting with selections, that can be saved and reused during another closing or a possibility to have a selection list saved in own excel sheet (e.g. list of reports), and copy t...
about 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration