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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    Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

    We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
    about 1 month ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

    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

    Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

    0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
    28 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

    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

    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

    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

    Accessibility in all supported web browsers and multiple screen readers

    508 compliance requires application to be accessible when using a variety of major web browsers (i.e., Chrome, MS Edge) and screen readers. Cognos Analytics currently states that accessibility features are only supported with Firefox and JAWS scre...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

    add UTF-8 BOM from within Cognos automatically

    When a user downloads a CSV and wants to open it in Excel the users normally just double click on the CSV -> a UTF-8 encoded CSV without the BOM "header" shows up incorrect due to special language characters. Adding the BOM to the UTF-8 automat...
    2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

    Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

    As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
    over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

    Support data modules in Event Agent

    Event Agent (aka Event Studio) is still very important to work with alerts and events but is limitted to packages. As data modules get more importance we urgently need support of data modules in Event Agent (or future/modernized version of Event A...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

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