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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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Lineage should be available in reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules

Cognos lineage works for reports (not interactive mode) using framework packages. Lineage should be available also in the newer cognos tools like reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules. Should be provided as built in to cognos and not a...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Planned for future release

Permissions control to allow / block use of inspector (and other webapps)

Currently there appears to be no way to control which users to be able to log into inspector - if they have access to the standard apis then they can just log into it. We would like some more specific controls, so that we can specify groups that a...
19 days ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Support for Transient Data through MDM.

Need support to send Transient Data through MDM without having to store it in DB. Like Co-relation IDs, Trace IDs, Some Header Information so that we can use them for logging and tracking.
about 1 month ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

There is growing demand to have longer first name, would like the MDM First name length be increased

Currently lot of jurisdiction has implemented IDS to support longer name, as there is a large demand to increase the name length due to many immigrants come to north America . Example, Ontario Health has created IDS for name, which has below lengt...
8 months ago in Master Data Management 2 Under review

Add support on Windows 11 to MDM AE 12.0

As Windows 10 is being phased out on the customer and they are not considering the migration to MDM AE 14.0 for the time being, there is a need to add support to Windows 11 for MDM AE 12.0.
10 months ago in Master Data Management 4 Functionality already exists

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Master Data Management support on DB2 v12.1

DB2 v12.1 support for Master Data Management. DB2 v11.5.7.* EOS is April 2027.
about 1 month ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Add IBM App Connect Enterprise to CP4D

Request: Enhancing CP4D with Enterprise Integration Capabilities via IBM App Connect Enterprise We propose the addition of a robust integration solution within Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) to support Enterprise Integration Patterns. A suitable candid...
6 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Under review