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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Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

Automated Notifications for Unreconciled Reporting

Now deadlines can be set against Controller Web by submission, then users on IBM SaaS must be named users via registration of their email address through IBM ID, plus success/failure of local reporting can be identified where a company is not set ...
6 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Do not allow the Database Optimize advanced option "Condense xacclock table" to run on combination of period and actuality where there is an open submission in Period Locking - Multi Periods

Do not allow the Database Optimize advanced option "Condense xacclock table" to run on combination of period and actuality where there is an open submission in Period Locking - Multi Periods. Also update the documentation to state whether or not a...
10 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Data reconciliation and intercompany reconciliation to be available from the company and group command center

We would like the enhancement for data reconciliation and intercompany reconciliation to be available from the company and group command center. The fact that the reconciliation function is being removed from the command center is unfortunate as w...
17 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Set up largest difference reconciliation by currency

Customers are facing the problem that they can only set one largest difference to reconciliate in Controller. If they use a lot of currencies then this largest difference is not relevant or too high. It should be possible to set this by currency o...
18 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Inclusion of the Help Menu in the Security Groups

We need to implement security controls so that only users with elevated permissions are able to access Help > System Info. To support this requirement, we suggest including the Help menu within Security Groups, allowing access to be restricted ...
30 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Correct welcome message in Controller Web. User name in stead of userID

This is more user friendly, looks more integrated and is then aligned with Cognos Analytics which displays the Name, in stead of the userID Please find in the attachment section a screen shot (CA_vs_CW.png) of Cognos Analytics Web and Controller W...
about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Native ARM client support

Have seen one customer go all in on Windows on ARM, with ARM based Excel using an emulation for intel based code (C/C++), which seems to work with the Controller Excel-link for now. But after checking with support, it seems untested/unsupported. A...
about 1 month ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Mail function to inform all users

Possibility to inform all users in one go, e.g. on timeline changes, closing process or structure changes or any other information that needs to be distributed to this audience. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

Pop-up information for all active users 

Pop-up information for all active users to inform in case of necessary down-time etc. This could appear when logging on (to inform in advance) or ad-hoc while people are working – if necessary. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User G...
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

Chat / collaboration feature 

A chat / collaboration feature would be helpful, e.g. in the area of IC reconciliation but also in other areas, e.g. to ask for commenting of certain figures. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
about 2 months ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

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