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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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

User can share customized dashboard panel with another user

We have users that want to create a dashboard panel which is more focused on their country: e.g. issues assigned to the 4 different managers across their country. This is not something we can make available for every user because of the specific a...
17 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

New Grid view field to update text fields (may be enabled in Nested View)

As a user I want an ability to update data directly within text fields in a grid view, similar to the functionality of Excel. This would eliminate the need to open individual records each time fields such as description or comments require modific...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Hide Public Filters

There should be a way to hide public filters from a grid view. Filters used in task views do not always need to be displayed to a user so these should have the option to be hidden. Controlled via a group access rather than individual user or enabl...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Object Commenting - Reply To

I have demonstrated the Object Commenting feature to our key OpenPages users and they will start to use it by Q1 2026. They have observed though that it may not work too well for oversight users that may be commenting on many different objects to ...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future 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...
13 days ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Is a defect

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...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts

In Controller Web it should be made possible to enter data for intercompany "M" accounts. There are many customers requesting this. It is not always an option for customers to import this information or to enter the information via Controller Clas...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Planned for future release

Generate PDF documents from documents stored in OpenPages

A new feature for converting Microsoft documents (Word, Excel, etc.) to PDF would be very useful. Users can upload documents in various formats to OpenPages, but reports for regulatory bodies must be generated in PDF format. With this feature, the...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Ability to customize content of MyTasks (e.g. additional columns/headers, etc.)

Currently, the content and layout of the My Tasks tab cannot be changed. Information is limited only to the ‘Type’, ‘Workflow Name’, ‘Stage’(Status), ‘Criticality’ and ‘Stage Due Date’. Some of this information may not be valuable to most of our u...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review