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Data Access and Modelling

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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 ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

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

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...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Case of letters in objects paths

There is a problem when switching between MSSQL and Oracle databases. Both databases may have the same structure and naming convention. In MSSQL, object paths use a naming convention where only the first letter of each entity is capitalized (e.g.,...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Key pair AuthN of Cognos with Snowflake jdbc driver

We currently are using AD as our namespace and would like to connect to Snowflake via JDBC connection using key pair AuthN.
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Dataset dbstorage sql server

Currently datasets can be stored as parquet-files or as db2dataset-storage. We use Microsoft sql server for CM-db and Audit-db. We would like to have the possibility to also store datasets on MS sql server. This would simplify our it-landscape.
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Distinct / Group by should be available in subqueries in cognos generated sql which will give better perrformnace

Distinct should be available in subqueries in cognos generated sql which will give better performance. Please provide an option to select for adding distinct in subqueries like with clause option in cognos generated sql which will give better perf...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Future consideration

Correctly Load Metadata and advise of any errors

I think this is a bug rather than an enhancement, but IBM Cognos Technical Support advised opening an enhancement request. Cognos Analytics 12 > Manage > Data Server Connections > {Data Server} > Assets > {Asset} > Load Metadata:...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Data Modules Complex Join Editor

Within Data Modules - when do you decide to give the user an editor rather than a very basic user interface?For example, you can enter a calculation with a simple creator OR AN EDITOR allowing you to build complex calculations.You can create a fil...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Blockchain integration as a data source

Would like to see integration of Blockchain as a data source in Cognos Analytics. Currently the only way to tap into it from cognos is to export to a relational data source then use it as a static which isn't desirable. Outside of that we have to ...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration