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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    Ignore opening balances on import

    Many customers copy opening balances forward then load trial balances which contain opening balances. To avoid overwriting the copied forward OBs a separate form excluding OBs has to be used in the delete tab of the import specification. This dupl...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

    Oauth authentication for email notification

    In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
    6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

    Lock/ready-mark a subgroup

    When using company status you ready mark a company (for a specific closing version, defined in the general configuration settings). However, other journal types than the ones included in that closing version is still open. In the next stage of rep...
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

    Workflow in Controller Web - Submit

    After submitting a submission in Controller Web, you get the following alternatives regarding where you want to go next: Back to overview Back to projects Cancel The best alternative for a logical workflow, would be to be able to select "Start rep...
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

    Enable Automatic Onboarding of LDAP Users to IKC Without Initial Login

    Currently, users from enterprise LDAP are successfully auto-propagated to the Access Control section in IBM Software Hub through their assigned Active Directory (AD) groups. However, these users do not appear in IKC until they log in for the first...
    6 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

    Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts in Controller Web

    Where Controller Classic setting ‘Journal Update According to Reconciliation of Accounts’ is enabled. This setting is ignored by Controller Web. For example, in Controller Web, if a user posts a value in the journal to a movement account, on save,...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

    Make the UI actually usable

    The UI is a big handicap working with this product. Critical information is consistently cut off, e.g. • In the transformer stage, the derivation/expression (arguably the most critical information) is barely visible. • In column listings, column n...
    9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 4 Under review

    Show full timestamp in listings

    The “Date Created” column displays relative timestamps (e.g., “A year ago”) instead of the actual date and time. This is unhelpful, as it obscures precise information unless hovered over. Please display the full timestamp by default. This issue ex...
    9 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / DataStage 0 Submitted

    Suport Multiple data marts in Controller FAP fully

    A customer publishes several datamarts from a single source. Structures are updated in Controller and the user goes into FAP administration and tries to update structures on all datamarts concurrently. Sometimes this will fail because the temporar...
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Under review

    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 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

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