Skip to Main Content
IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


ADD A NEW IDEA

Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

Showing 368

Load consolidations into batch queue

Load scheduling of consolidations into batch queue.
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Planned for future release

zlogspec table - logdata field fact

Can not read fact from the field "logdata" in the table "zlogspec". We are trying to create a Cognos BI report for the log report within Controller for external data import. However the details of errors within the log report is not readable by Co...
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Controller database optimise automate

The optimization should be a standard out of the box functionality that re indexes and removes zeros from the DB to make sure performance is excellent - we need to carry this out every few months to make sure controller runs properly. Which means ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

An excess value report

A report that list all companies, or a specific company, and their corresponding excess values as they are booked in the shareholding register.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

ADM and Service User Account

IBM licensing regulation forces customers to purchase ADM licenses for any user accounts that are created without limitation. This includes service user accounts.
about 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Add control in Controller around adding forms to a form set

It is currently possible to assign a form to a form set without any control. In some cases that form may get associated with two submissions that are assigned to one actuality and Period.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Creating a Level Filter within the reports so that you can say all Level 1s need to match & all Level 2s need to match etc.

Here below a proposal from Global Control to improve the application Cognos Controller. Can you please check with IBM if it is possible to include the functionality here below in the next version of Cognos Controller. Proposal:- At the moment all ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Use of intercompany account templates in Controller Web

I cannot see that intercompany account templates (defined in the rich client) are applied when opening a form in Controller Web. All counterparts are visible.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Suggestion for improvement - Reports-Run

Dear IBM-Developper-TeamWhen opening Reports - Run the window looks as follows:Left hand side: Reports and FormsUpper right corner: Dimension and Code used to run the reportlower right corner: empty - This part could be used for a report preview.E...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Consolidation of the Group restriction

After certain update, only users who have “write-access” to the Group Company can use “Consolidate with status/ by steps” functionality. This is inconvenient then all of the IFRS Transformation / Consolidation are carried out by single dep...
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration