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

    Option to change Field type from Simple String to Large Text

    We are facing the challenge that after implementation, it is found out that simple string fields do not allow enough characters to be added and therefore we need to change the field into a large text field.This is currently only possible by creati...
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

    Allow for custom auroralogging.properties file to define custom loggers that aren't overwritten by upgrades/fix packs/interim fixes

    When implementing custom loggers we have to place these in the auroralogging.properties file. This works great until the file gets re-created during the installation of upgrades, fix packs or interim fixes. We would like a custom auroralogging.pro...
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

    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...
    19 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

    Ability to save migration variables

    While exporting configuration, there is no way to check what variables were selected and exported and imported.
    22 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

    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

    Preference object reference to the record's location

    I would like to request for an enhancement on the workflow configuration that will allow for the setup of assignees to use the Preference object in the same location of the record itself. This will cover instances when the location of the record i...
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

    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

    Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud to share one Satellite Connector

    Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

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