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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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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.

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Trial Balance with comparsion period

Possibility to run a Trial Balance in Controller Classic selecting a comparison period. That means, each company represents of two columns (one is the selected actuality/period, the other is the comparative actuality/period).
over 5 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Not under consideration

Improve Standby Replay Performance

In our environment, the replay on the standy database is not able to keep up with the speed at which the PRIMARY is able to process data. Our replay gaps often exceed 100 GB, and this means that any failover would be delayed. We use HADR for high ...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 2 Delivered

Looking for ability to specify Data Server Driver and Nuget package for different appls on same .NET server

We are interested in IBM providing the ability to support an application using a Db2 NuGet package for Db2 connectivity and another application using DS Driver or Db2 Client on the same .NET server for compatibility between the Db2 NuGet package f...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 2 Delivered

Show tooltips in the Dashboard metadata tree for FM Packages

Tooltips created in Framework Manager are very useful for explaining the meaning of data items and query subjects to the end user. They appear in the Reporting UI metadata tree, but don't appear in the Dashbaord UI metadata tree. This should be co...
over 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Delivered

References of Cells added to sheets to be maintainable

When adding a Cell to a sheet to make a tile or card like in Power BI, there is very little flexibility with regards to maintanence. Unless you turn on the filters, it is impossible to ascertain the cell reference being pointed to. The filters inc...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Possibility for administrator to Clear/empty dataset

Possibility for administrator to Clear/empty dataset. As an administrator I can not clear/empty datasets. I can only delete datasets. Having possibility to clear/empty datasets I could force users to refresh their datasets without ruining the appl...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Allow comments to defined risk lists to be loaded when entries are uploaded with a file

Currently, when a defined risk list is loaded with a file, only the main item of the list can be auto-loaded, comments to this item can be input only manually, which basically means the client will either have to do this for hundreds and thousands...
10 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 0 Under review

Planning Analytics Workspace backup not returning error exit code

Problem Description It seems that the PAW backup.ps1 utility generates a success exit code (0) even when the backup fails. For example, if the PowerShell command is unable to complete a backup because its file size limitation has been reached, a...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Resend workflow notification if assignee gets updated

When the User field that corresponds to the Assignee on a workflow is changed they must use the refresh button (curly arrow) on the workflow to update the Assignee (as advised by support previously). This works as advised and the object then appea...
almost 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

allow parameters with clear events command

using CHCCLP, the clear events command - for datastores and subscriptions - is a "clear all" command (besides the ability to select source or target). When running with an automated scripted monitoring process, where up to 10,000 events are fetche...
3 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted