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

    Enhance the Gateway Java API to include the ability to get and use a database connection in user exits

    Publish a supported Java API that a customer implemented Gateway User Exits can get a database connection from. The database connection should be based upon the same database credentials as what the Gateway uses. The database connection should be ...
    about 1 month ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 2 Submitted

    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

    Certain items that fail the modulus check do not trigger an error.

    FROM TS007184858 When a modulus 11 routine is applied to checks for fields 3 (account) and 7 (aux-on-us) . If the modulus routine results in the check digit of a 10, it is represented by a dash in the MICR field. For certain items that have a nume...
    about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 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

    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

    Multi Token Varient Match

    Support Ticket: TS020158799 When matching a multi token name which is present in the Multi token Varient list, that multi token name is not considered as individual tokens when being matched, but are matched togather. Even though they are not bein...
    about 1 month ago in Global Name Management (GNM) 0 Submitted

    Would like Business rules to not allow a second click of the activate button or a flag be set that activation has started and not allow other attempts to activate again until it is complete.

    A release was accidently activated twice within 2 minutes, while Business Rules was tied up, it kept inbound files from processing. This caused files to go into error in inbound physical transmissions. Files were able to be successfully restarted ...
    6 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

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