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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    Allow multiple hierarchies in the Measure dimension of a Planning Analytics (PA) cube to be used in Cognos Analytics

    We have a Planning Analytics cube where the Income Statement Measure Dimension has more than one hierarchy. This works fine in a Planning Analytics Exploration and also in Planning Analytics for Excel, but it does not work in Cognos Analytics. In ...
    3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

    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

    Smart Split Data Modeling

    When selecting to split a date item, allow for the ability to select a start of year date (e.g. calendar 1/2/2025 vs other (e.g. fiscal year 10/1/2024). In addition, add options to allow for selecting quarter. Quarter would be generated as a numbe...
    18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 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 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

    An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

    Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

    Integrate zAI analysis to use SQL-DI

    SQL-DI is great at finding commonalties, similarities and possibly predicting values, It might be a good idea to feed zAI collected data into SQL-DI to assess the calculated values and choose and compare access paths chosen with host variable valu...
    26 days ago in IBM SQL Data Insights Pro 0 Submitted

    Advanced Formatting Options Applied in Dashboards, Explorations, and Stories

    In Data Modules you can format an item using advanced options such as patterns etc. I want to be able to apply patterns on dates in particular. It works fine in reporting but does not appear the same way in my dashboard. Per the documentation it s...
    5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

    Datamodule doesn't support store procedures

    By introducing the capability to import database stored procedures as parameterized query objects in the Data Module, you could streamline your workflow within Cognos and eliminate the need for additional Cognos Framework Manager installations. Th...
    about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

    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

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