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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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Allow customers to enable multiple consolidations batches to run in parallel

Because of the high volume of the consolidation we need to run during the closing periods, it will be very beneficial to have the ability to run multiple consolidations at the same time, in parallel batch jobs. We understand the risk of running co...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Application Performance Dashboard to monitor some parameters and get alerts when approaching critical states

Currently, when the application performance goes down, we only get to know it by the feedback we get from the users, when they have already been hit by slowness or instability accessing the application or running reports/processes within it. In or...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Planned for future release

Local client being compatible for different product versions

The Controller 11 client that is currently downloaded From Controller Web to a user's machine is only compatible to a single product version. For customers with separate production and development environments this will cause a restriction, say de...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Unencrypted password in udl file

We have discovered that in udl files the password is unencrypted. When discovered during a penetration test this is considered a high risk.
over 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

FAP Service.properties - Password Encryption

Hi, at our client Atlantic Group d.d. during upgrade of PA,CA,CC client set request to eliminate all hardcoded passwords on any file on all models. We successfully eliminated them by using inbuilt encryption (e.g. in PA) or if password was in .bat...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Support for Windows Authentication between Controller and SQL Server

Database administrators more and more frequently disables SQL Server Logins and prefer to use Windows Authentication between server applications and Microsoft SQL Server database servers. In Controller, it would be nice to have turn-key support to...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Possibility to select a Contribution Version for Control table E705 (Indirect Minority)

In the Control table E700 (Direct Minority) it is possible to select a Contribution Version but for the table E705 (Indirect Minority) it is NOT possible to select a Contribution version. It is only possible to select a Closing Version. This is re...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Scheduling Reports built in Controller (extraction in Excel)

Scheduling reports in Excel is the first step in the process of preparing Consolidated Financial Statements for the business leaders. Each business leader receives a Consolidated workbook with multiple tabs (BS, P&L and CF) for the companies, ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

QTD data in one form.

Our customers report data in QTD format in quarter three as below (cloumns): 1. 01.07.2023-30.09.2023 - Q3 In the period2. 30.09.2023 Q3 YTD3. 01.07.2022-30.09.2022 - Q3 In the period4. 30.09.2022 Q3 YTD It would be useful to be able to set the co...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Automating process that every steps are performed when a FAP synch is required

Hi Team, We have faced issue with sync in Past between the FAP and Controller databases where IBM need to manually go ahead IBM executed a sync between the FAP and Controller databases. Can we automating this process so that every steps are perfor...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration