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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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Missing support for Microsoft SQL server 2025

When will SQL Server 2025 be supported as Database in Cognos Controller (CCR)? As of today SQL server 2022 is most recent listed in clarity reports for CCR 11.1.1 Customers upgrading to most recent Windows environments are asking for SQL 2025 supp...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Need additional APIs to fetch resources by tag id/name

IBM OpenPages Tagging capability allow users to associate one more tags to records. This helps business users to categorize records based on their functionality and relevance to specific capability (e.g. RCSA). For example: - A control has the tag...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

Print Journal report excluding statistical accounts

In the Group - Reports - Journals menu you could print a journals report selecting specific account(s). Customers would prefer to be able to select accounts by account type. Consequently, you would be able to print a journal report, excluding stat...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Monthly values Controller web

When our customers work with budgets/forecasts in Controller they must enter/import YTD-values instead of monthly values. This is great how it works in Classic. Enter monthly values in specific forms -> storing YTD by adding last month YTD.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Questionnaires via REST API

Questionnaires via REST API Currently there is no REST API to pull the Questionnaire Question and responses using the REST API. only option is Cognos. Which is not helpful to get the real-time data.
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Under review

Account description available in Controller web

It would be great to have the possibility to see an account description on one account in Controller Web.
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Planned for future release

Make it easier to run Consolidations automatically

Our main User Group (Group Consolidation team) are aware of the ability to create automatic Consolidaitions via menu "Consolidation With Status" and "Schedule job...". But they want to create Consolidations on batch/schedule them in a more automat...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Controller to support multiple domains authentication

We're now at the situation that acquisition brought in new domain of user profiles in Active Directory Server, however the current authentication method we're adopting Windows authentication is unable to support multiple domains for authentication...
7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Exclude certain intercompany rules from reconciliation

In Controller Web, in the Intercompany tab, all intercompany rules are visible by default. However, most customers have IC rules which are only for elimination purpose and are not relevant for the reporters as they shouldn't be reconciled. The sol...
about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review

SaaS connection errors

Why does Controller SaaS enable sessions to remain open on screen and give the appearance of SaaS connection, when in fact they are deactivated or disconnected sessions? For example, where the user ignores the “idle timer expired” prompt and Contr...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration