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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    Attach file to an investment template

    Possible to attach a file in the comment window in an investment template (Group - Data entry - Shareholdings and investment, Investment template)
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

    Improvement posting a journal in Controller Web

    The posting of journals in CCR Web is time-consuming. Would be preferable to be able to write in the cells (account, dim1-dim4) and not forced to select from drop-down lists.
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

    Pod Documentation

    We would need a Page in the documentation where all pods are described and its usage based on software usage. The last year we often strugeled to know which pod to restart as a first measure to solve bugs. Most times we opened a ticket and afterwa...
    8 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

    Vault Kv1 Support

    Currently we are trying to utilize our existing vault infrastructure but we are running into an issue where kv1 is not supported. Anyway to include this soon by chance?
    3 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Submitted

    Implement a more granular permission structure to better separate duties and manage user roles effectively.

    The current permission model combines multiple actions under single permissions, such as the "Administer platform" permission, which encompasses user management and JDBC driver imports. This consolidation makes it challenging to configure user rol...
    about 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 5 Future consideration

    Enhancement Request Azure PAAS service for SQL environment

    Hi, More and more customers are heading up to Azure with their on prem IBM environments. We get more questions of: Can we use Azure PAAS platform or Azure SQL Services for our IBM Cognos databases. Does IBM plan on investigate these services from ...
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

    Copy repoted values btw periods in Controller Web

    Possible to copy data (selected forms) for a company, from a previous period, in Controller Web.
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

    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

    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

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