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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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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



Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 8, 2025

Variance analysis needed within Controller Web reporting

The selection of column content for reporting is prescriptive. You have to chose individual actualities, periods, etc. This means you can present say Actual data against Budget data. You cannot however then add a new column that then presents the difference between Actual and Budget numbers. Equally you cannot define whether to present the difference calculated as either a number or a percentage. This is very common format for management reporting and it is a basic need missing from this reporting tab.

Needed By Quarter
  • Guest
    Oct 11, 2025

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