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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    XPS provides a dot notation for COSERVERS, this is blocked under IDS which means a change from XPS to IDS requires a complete application layer rebuild

    Migrating from a long time out-of-support XPS system to V14 requires all the <INFORMIXSERVER>.<COSERVER> notation to be change to <INFORMIXSERVER><COSERVER> as the dot notation is not supported under IDS. As XPS is long tim...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 5 Under review

    Add IIF-functions to ControllerWeb-import specifications

    In ControllerClassic it is possible to use IIF-functions in Operartion Templates for sophictiated assigning of codes. For instance a Countercompany-code either from a Participation account or from an extra field where a counterpart is displayed
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Needs more information

    Enhance Performance Guide to cover Replication Tuning including ER and Performance Monitoring for Replication

    Allow optimal setup of Replication and assist in resolving bottlenecks.
    7 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Standard forms with dimensions in rows in Controller Web

    Many customers are using 2-4 free dimensions and have at least one standard form using dimension (expanded) in the row definition. This is not supported in Controller Web where you can have only one dimension in column (and another in filter).
    about 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

    Need a function for excel link and reports for the "Country or Region" code seen in Company structure.

    In the Company Structure “Maintain > Company Structure > Define…” there is a field “Country or Region”. The customer requires a there a function to retrieve this information in Controller reports or the Controller Excel link. IBM have confir...
    10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

    Add SQL-statement COMMENT ON as in Oracle or PostgreSQL

    For some tables or columns it would be helpful to describe what the table/column is used for since the names are not always self-explanatory. Although COMMENT ON is not part of standard SQL it would be helpful to have such a statement. The DOCUMEN...
    over 5 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 6 Future consideration

    Multiple User Administrators for Controller Web

    It is currently only possible for a single administrator (ADM) to link IBM ID's to Controller users. In the interest of business continuity and to avoid credentials sharing, it would be really beneficial if additional user administrators could be ...
    10 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

    Please remove the error -21569 when accessing via the SQL Admin API

    If you use a dbaccess or other client of a version older than 15.0.0.0 with the SQL Admin API to retrieve information from large tables, you get the error message -21569 'this client cannot create or open tables that use large rowids'. For example...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Commentary enablement against Controller Web reporting

    In supplement to BACC-I-548, can Controller Web reporting also seek to improve the functionality for commentary capture. Users typically want to provide commentary on Controller at a summarised level, not an account entry level. For example, comme...
    2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

    'on no match default' functionality (for import specifications) in Controller Web

    Customer already use import specs and CSV files to import data into Controller classic. However, they would like to use Controller Web instead. The customer relies on the classic functionality " on no match default " to get their classic impor...
    over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

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