IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Detailed Status and Logging for API-Based Data Loads in Controller

    In the Classic Client, detailed log reports are available for data uploaded to Controller. Similarly, Controller Web provides status and detailed logs for consolidations, manual web imports, and a summary of Classic imports, including downloadable...
    about 9 hours ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

    Improve IBM Controller Excel timeout experience

    Current Challenge When IBM Controller Excel times out, users face two issues: Closing the logon pop-up triggers an error (see screenshot "Object reference not set to an instance of an object"). Attempting to log on again without restarting Excel r...
    about 5 hours ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

    Allow regular users to view account and company hierarchies

    Some of our users in central group accounting want to have the possibility to view the hierarchies in Cognos Controller (Account and Company) Preferably by being able to view it in the menus "Maintain - Account Structure - Define" and "Maintain - ...
    about 6 hours ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Submitted

    Support integration for watsonx.ai SaaS on AWS

    Support for integrating with watsonx.ai SaaS deployed on AWS, as it uses a different authentication mechanism compared to watsonx.ai on IBM Cloud. The current integration assumes IBM Cloud authentication, which is not compatible with the AWS deplo...
    about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

    Allow security menu group rights to be imported

    Customer received internal audit comment with >4000 comments for their existing 41 users in Controller and needs to make adjustments to the security group limitations. However, it is too tedious to edit manually. They are requesting enhancement...
    15 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

    Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

    MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
    6 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Future consideration

    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...
    2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

    Improve Polish Translation in IBM Cognos Controller Web

    We have identified incorrect Polish translations in IBM Cognos Controller Web interface for basic form types. These terms are used daily and are critical for usability. Current translations are not only inaccurate but misleading: English: Standa...
    11 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Is a defect

    The way Japanese input is handled in the prompt

    I'm using WCA on VSCode 1.96.4 / macOS 15.2. When entering Japanese text in the input prompt, I often need to convert characters to kanji. However, pressing Enter to confirm the conversion also sends the input as a message in WCA Assistant Chat, r...
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 2 Future consideration

    Controller Classic Transfer / Export Structures - make Controller Web Import Specs and Lookups selection specific

    Instead of having to import all Controller Web Import Specifications and/or all Web Lookup tables, it would be helpful if you could select specific Import Specifications and Lookup tables. (especially as Transfer/Export Structures is IBM's work ar...
    28 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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