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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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Print all company journals for a group, including subgroups

Possible to print a report of company journals for a specific group including all subgroups and companies below.
over 5 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

Trial Balance with comparsion period

Possibility to run a Trial Balance in Controller Classic selecting a comparison period. That means, each company represents of two columns (one is the selected actuality/period, the other is the comparative actuality/period).
over 5 years ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add capability of using GEN parameters in change management batch interface procedure (GOCCM)

We had below requirement from the user: We have an existing column in an existing table that we are adding a new RI to a new domain table. If we issue the compare normally using object comparison tool, we get both the table create DDL and the new ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Administration Tool for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

PAW - ability to execute chores / processes while not in edit mode

Ability for a user to not be in edit mode, and execute a chore / process (subject to security)
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

Provide greater flexibility in confidence values to trigger the "No Matches"

The customer would like to customize the confidence values set in the ‘No Matches’ settings to 'Rarely', 'Sometimes', and 'More Often', by defining their own values for triggering Actions and setting values within custom intervals.
about 1 year ago in IBM watsonx Orchestrate 0 Under review

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 Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Under review

Ability to customize color of buttons in message box

Blue color often associated to "validate/ok" and black color to "reject/nok" whereas sometimes it is quicker to choose the black one (e.g. moving a workflow)
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

More efficient unique indexes for monotonically increasing keys and constraints

Currently an index on a SERIAL and other monotonically increasing keys only add to the last node in the index causing the node to split into two half filled nodes. Eventually a sufficient number of nodes have so split that the index's search effic...
over 3 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

Allow Cognos BI to send encrytped email

Add the ability to BI to send encrypted emails containing report output (either as attachment or imbedded HTML).
almost 11 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Reorg blocking applications when using "allow write access"

While an "allow write acces" online reorg is running lock-wait contention can happen based on the number of rows being updated by an application. The locks for the application can escalate to lock an x lock. If this situation happens, the reorg sh...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration