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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    provide Index status between CCR database and FAP to enable customer to decide if we need to reset the data publish

    Currently there are many instances where the data is not fully published, especially when the new structures are published in controller, this leads to data consistency problem in report. So the users does not know when to reset the trickle publis...
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

    redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

    From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
    6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

    Free forms in Intercompany and reconcile tab in Controller Web

    In Controller web , in the reconcile and intercompany tab and in case of a free form, it is not possible to go directly to the form in which you would like to correct the error. One has to open the form from the populate tab. This is slower and wh...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

    Controller Web Open projects on company level

    Reporting units has to see projects referring to periods and actualities that they have finish. When a reporting unit has locked their company they still see the project as open when they enter Controller web. This becomes most annoying during per...
    over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

    Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

    The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
    about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

    Change password in Controller Web

    The user needs access to Controller Classic to be able to change his/her password as there is no such functionality in Controller Web.
    almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

    Controller Web support for non-stable networks

    In this age of the pandemic, more people are working from home, and are thus connected via networks that are not 100% stable. In Controller Web you tend to get an error message if the websock communication is broken, and then you will have to relo...
    almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

    Dimensions in columns in Trial Balance

    Customers works more and more with extended dimensions. They have a strong wish and need to select to see dimensions in columns in the same way that you can select to see companies in columns.
    over 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

    On Controller Web 'Preview' or 'Review Errors' screen, provide the amount that has been imported to the 'Perform Reconciliation' difference account or accounts.

    It's important for users importing and Group finance to know what amount is being created from the 'Perform Reconciliation' function when included in the Controller web import spec. Currently there is no reference on the 'Preview' or 'Review Error...
    7 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

    Multiple file import on CC Web

    A user can currently select and import multiple flatfiles within Controller Classic, thus loading multiple company files in one action. In contrast, Controller Web restricts file import to a single file import. Can Web be updated to accept multipl...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

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