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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Data entry forms with drilldown and filter functionality

Data entry form should have a drilldown and filter functionality. For example if a form is created like a trial balance this will allow the user to directly use this as a dynamic report at the same time. This idea was raised out of the IBM Control...
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Print format / report book option for Web data entry forms

It should be possible to create a printable output for all forms in a submission, e.g. as in report books in Controller Classic today. This is especially required during year end audit to confirm the reporting package. Possibility of reporting pac...
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Database administration features also for on premise installations 

Administration of databases (as available for cloud users) would be helpful for on premise installations (would be nice to see what date a database is from, i.e. when the backup was restored …). This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User ...
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Submitted

Include/exclude certain IC eliminations from reconciliation 

In configuration of IC it should be possible to exclude certain journal numbers from reconciliation to increase transparency for the user. This idea was raised out of the IBM Controller User Group DACH.
21 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud)

“Add Spacer” with MDX parameters in asymmetric views

Addition of spacers with stacked columns / rows using MDX Global Parameters in asymmetric views When 2 dimensions or more are stacked in asymmetric views, spacers addition is not working properly when MDX Global Variables are used. Reproduction st...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Show table relationship on relationship Explorer graph

On relationship graph there are many possible ways to look for relationships. But a data asset to data asset relationship that comes from foreign keys is not natively shown. To create that bond by now it is necessary to manually create each relati...
about 1 month ago in Knowledge Catalog Functionality already exists

MDX Snippets to be supported

Just like with TI Snippets, developers often times have a repository of MDX snippets that they use when building sets and views. Being able to upload these snippets and use them in a similar fashion to TI snippets would be very useful.
26 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Add consumption metrics (CUH/Tokens) at Project/Space level to SW version as there is on SaaS

Request: Add support for multi-tenant usage tracking in the SW (on-prem) version, aligned with the usage-based metering we support on SaaS. Currently the SW tracks by GB of RAM, # GPUs and vCPUs, but it lacks: Token/CUH tracking per project/space....
10 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai Under review

Db2 Connect NULLID packages should be shipped in Db2 zos PTFs for BIND

This is a historic and on-going problem with the design of binding the NULLID packages on Db2 zOS from the Db2 Connect client installer. For high-security mainframe platforms, the Db2 Connect installer will not have authority to bind on a producti...
3 months ago in Db2 for z/OS Under review

Use of J type intercompany with period looping import specs in Controller Web

For Controller Web import specs with looping by period, there is no ability to define the start column for the transaction amount field. If customers use J type intercompany accounts for their actual imports, we would expect them to want to use th...
28 days ago in Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) Future consideration

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