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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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Search functionality in security groups

When changing/creating existing/new security groups for companies (Maintain > Rights > Security groups - Companies) there's no functionality for searching for a company/group company. All searching must be done manually which is very time co...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Password requirements

The IT security policy in many organizations have detailed requirements regarding password complexity and how this is handled. The complexity of passwords set up in Controller is not enough. Except what's already possible to limit regarding pw in ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Controller Email Feature to connect to Controller Appl instead of direct to SMTP server

controller client to send email instruction via Application Server to SMTP server, instead of current design where client machine calling SMTP server directly. IT policy does not allow users to connect directly to SMTP server. With the change, use...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Adding success message in Citrix Web page for password change

Could you please add success message for password change in IBM Citrix page as requested in IBM case TS006838901
about 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

To add new feature to allow different posting account in E300

Current design in E300 only allows one posting account for change in shareholding %, i.e. Acct Change in Own % field. Customer would like this to be enhanced so that they can specify separate accounts for increase and decrease/dilution in sharehol...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Enable both on-demand consolidations AND scheduling of database optimizations

Per Case TS006539359 we found out that the BATCHMODE ON/OFF entry found in: Maintain > Configuration > General > Server Preferences tab oddly controls scheduling of both consolidation run timing and whether you can schedule a database opt...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

One View of All Users in Environment

Hi, So, we subscribe to 3 software with IBM Cloud - Planning Analytics, Controller and Cognos Analytics. Users are added in PA and then in Controller. Controller needs that we add users to Controller Users Group in the limited use BI. Since we use...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Reasons for FAP structure updates

Need to identify the specific reason why a FAP update structures process needs to be run. At the moment, reasons are in general categories such as "security" and cross-referencing the change in FAP with the trigger event in Controller is difficult.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Command Center: Alternate/default e-mail "Sender Address"

Within Command Center, the E-mail Notification feature allows for "Receiving of e-mail confirmations" which effectively sends the confirmation e-mail to the user from the user (due to the address defined within Maintain > Rights > Users). Th...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Better details in Audit log for Calculate ownership process

I have logged a call with IBM (TS006004206) regarding the details that the audit log show on the Maintain > company structure >calculate ownership as the report is not providing detailed enough information to establish what has changed or ha...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration