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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).


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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.

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


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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...
2 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Relative Aliases for Forecasting

We are using the Basline Forecast to produce a 17 week production forecast. Every 3 weeks we re-forecast the 17 week period after reloading historical actuals. To minimize the maintenance each time we run the forecast, we have aliases on our week ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace Backup and Restore created reports

Export a lifecycle management asset from PAW to backup our more than 3000 reports somewhere and restore if required. We had an end user that has lost a report/view in personal folder which we could not restore. The end user needed to re-create the...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Support of Active Directory Groups or Cognos Groups in PAW local

At the moment there is no possibility to import user and Groups from Active Directory or Cognos to PAW. The users and groups have to be imported manually via csv File We would like to have the possibility to manage user and groups for PAW in Activ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Action Button Synchronise with cell of view.

We want the ability to click on a cell in a cube view and use the dimension context in an Action Button in PAW. Currently this can be achieved in a Websheet using the Advanced options "Selected DBRW" option, but not in a PAW view/book. An example ...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

DB2 Regions creating a lot of messages for AB/S004E SYSTEM ABEND CODE: 004E in LOGREC

It was reported thru GTIECSMFDB-10132 on both the SDPLEX and SBPLEX that the DB2 regions are producing thousands of error messages in the System Logrec for AB/S004E SYSTEM ABEND CODE: 004E each day. The following error messages are filling up the ...
2 months ago in Db2 for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Translation method D for intercompany currency differences

Issue: For our Group consolidation we are translating P/L figures using translation method D (Average Period rates). But on intercompany transactions Cognos Controller calculates and post currency differences based on translation method M (Average...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Allow IET to be locked by period

Currently there is no allowance in security to lock IET against changes, including past IET periods. Coupled with no audit log capability to track, there would be no clue as to what was changed. This will affect prior periods if consolidation was ...
3 months ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Future consideration

Currently Job Priority Over Time Impacts all Queue and all Jobs - Instead optionally make it affect only Queues and Jobs that are APS Queues

The Job Priority Over Time is an excellent feature that is designed to be paired with APS dispatch rules. However, some users have setup soft dispatch or dispatch preferences in the normal queue which is not APS enabled that classify jobs by their...
3 months ago in Spectrum LSF / Administration 0 Future consideration

Ability to hide certain report type in PAfE

It would be useful to have the ability to remove certain report types. It would simplify users adoption as there are 5 report types at the moment in PAfE. Also we could coerce users to use only a specific ones like Universal report or custom repor...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration