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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Reconciliation rules per dimension, not only legal entity

In the section "Reconciliation" in Controller Web you can see three reconciliation rules Debit - Credit, OB-CB and any account rules. However, the rules are only applied on legal entity level and not per extended dimension. Would be a great advant...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Imroved administration of linked structures

The administration of linked structures (Company - Dim1/2/3/4) with a great number of companies, is very time consuming. With many companies, having more or less the same access to dimensions but with minor differences, you need to set up and main...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Print all company journals for a group, including subgroups

Possible to print a report of company journals for a specific group including all subgroups and companies below.
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Trial Balance with comparsion period

Possibility to run a Trial Balance in Controller Classic selecting a comparison period. That means, each company represents of two columns (one is the selected actuality/period, the other is the comparative actuality/period).
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Track filters on Cognos Usage Reports

It would be useful to track down on Cognos Usage Reports which filters were selected on the dashboard, alongside the date and the user who selected the filters. This would be excellent for a usage analytics scenario.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package

Ability to execute Dashboard without read permission on package
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Modify redirected recovery to eliminate the need for repair catalog of target

Modify redirected recovery to eliminate the need for repair catalog of target The relatively new Db2 utility enhancement of redirected recovery is very useful When recovering a target tablespace from another tablespace, the IBM documentation is ve...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Organizing datasource connections in Cognos Administration

Hi, We would like to get a better overview in Cognos Administration when viewing all our 2000 datasource connections. The ability to filter on datasource connection type (PowerCube, MS SQL Server, ODBC, IBM Cognos TM1 etc.) in order to minimize th...
almost 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Under review

Add ability to set which folder file uploads are added to

Action buttons within PAW Book allow users the ability to "Allow file upload" when running a process which will prompt the user for a file to upload prior to running the process. At the moment this file is uploaded to the .\model_upload folder. Re...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Add 'net accounting of intercompany balances' option in standard report

Applicable to IBM Cognos Controller v 11 -> In standard report 'group / reconcile / intercompany balances', there is a default option 'net accounting of intercompany balances'. Such option doesn't exist in the standard report 'company / reconci...
5 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Under review