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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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Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

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Created by currency conversion using D-rate, converted values exist to roll over to Retained earnings next year

For automatically generated journals type: “Created by currency conversion using D-rate, converted values exist” which do not have values in LC, and have values only in legal currency, to implement a mechanism that helps to roll retained earnings ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 5 Not under consideration

Access to NRTR_DATAMART

Before Upgrading from SQL to DB2 we had access to a similar table and setup an event to run when the Strcture code wasn't 75 (ok) when sending to FAP. when the code isn't 75 this stops the trickle feed to FAP from controller causing issue when rec...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Keep layout when sending Trial Balance to Excel

In a Trial Balance in Controller there are lines (between rows) to display which accounts are summation accounts. When sending the report to Excel the layout disappear. Consequently, the report in Excel are almost impossible to read. My customers ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Fast way to lock historical rates

For every acquisition I have to lock currency rates within the acquisition register and under Group/Data Entry/Historical Rates. If we acquire a group of entities it could be quite some entries.
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Company Structure Report

Would it be possible under Maintain / Company Structure / Report to add the company short name as additional information?
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 3 Not under consideration

Company Structure Report

No description provided
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 2 Not under consideration

Ad Manager - Improve modify user function so that Administrator does not need to re-input user email address

In AD Manager, due to product limitation (mentioned by DevOps through Support), the email address field is displayed as blank and requires to be re-entered when Administrator modify a user. Proposed: To have a separate edit button for the email a...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

On Cloud - AD Management Portal - Create New Users Info Button To Update

when creating new user in AD Management Portal, If you clicked on all the info button besides the field but nothing pops out. we are unable to tell if the button doesn't have information or fails to work because there is no behaviour. Can those i...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Ad hoc Reports to allow currency code selection & period interval

group user ran ad hoc reports for ad hoc request/checking of some values instead of specially create an excel linked report just for ad hoc requests. Currently values are all in YTD only and able to select either local or immediate group currency....
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 4 Not under consideration

Period Interval in Custom Reports to expand

current list of period intervals are YTD, 1,2,3,4,6,12 and NPY. It happens that user requires interval 5 & 7 and is unable to find, hence has to work out the interval 5 & 7 values in order to present in excel-linked report. Hence, user is ...
about 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration