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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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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

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration

Support and document AT-TLS for all ports

The IBM documentation to establish AT-TLS protected connections for CQM does not cover all connections/ports. It only documents part of it. There is only an 'unofficial' blog post how one can achieve it but not in the IBM documentation. Hence it s...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

allow CAE to refresh certificates while running

The CAE is configured to get the keyring and certificates at startup. the keyring and certs are inside our ESM (in our case ACF2, but this applies to RACF, etc) We need to update the server certificate inside the keyring every NN days. Today, to g...
5 months ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Prevent copying of data modules

We want to allow a user to use a data module in Reporting perspective but he should not be able to copy the data module. On the copied data module the user is the owner and has full permissions. It is not possible to prevent copying of data module...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

The incremental Import option is not available for GCP BigQuery connection for MDI

We need incremental import option for GCP Big Query connection for MDI's.
over 1 year ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Connectivity / Watson Knowledge Catalog 0 Future consideration

Support for Google AlloyDB as Datasource

Support for Google AlloyDB as Datasource - just IBM need to certiify as Postgres is the format here
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

List port being used by SQL statement/user-ID

Currently, it is difficult to find the port number that a SQL statement or user-ID is using. Sure we can get from SMF or some other way but that is cumbersome and takes time for batch processing of the data. If CQM could show the data we could see...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Add Data Set operations to audit logging

Add user actions surrounding data set creation/modification/refreshes to audit logs. When researching when a data set was refreshed, there seems to be nothing in the audit logs that stores that this action happened. Request data set refresh and an...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration