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

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Improve speed and stability of Controller when have large numbers company locks (XACCLOCK table)

If a customer has a complicated company structure (e.g. with many different actualities) then after they create company locks for all their periods/actualities, XACCLOCK becomes absolutely enormous For example, one of our customers has 22 million ...
4 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

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

Method to increase idle timeout for Controller Web (currently fixed at 60 minutes)

If a user is logged into Controller Web, but pauses using it (leaving it on screen but idle) they will get a problem if they don't click on anything (in Controller Web) for more than 60 minutes. If using Native authentication, it will just return ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Native API connectors from IBM CCR (On Cloud) to PowerBI

It is popular today for Native API connectors for a variety of systems and understanding that an organization may not utilize solely 1 or 2 systems from a principal. Hence, the need for native API connectors between various principals. Such would ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

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