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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

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

Negative Example Phrases for Action Triggers

Currently, actions in Watsonx Assistant allow one or more example phrases to trigger the action. In some cases, the addition of a specific word or phrase to these example phrases is an entirely different user intent. Adding negative example phrase...
22 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Greek Language to be added in the Assistant and Discovery products

We are under discussion with one of our customers about an Assistant solution that will help their technicians to work more efficient and resolve their issues faster. The documents are in Greek and English language, and this is a limitation in com...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under 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...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Search capabilities to find answers (assistant says)

Imagine a giant corpus where the curator needs to quickly find in which action and step a certain string (response) is located. Today the Assistant search only finds actions by their name and it would be very useful to be able to find steps and an...
over 1 year ago in watsonx Assistant 1 Not under 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

UPS API's response message should be displayed in the GCP logs.

Currently, the UPS API status code is being logged in GCP. It would be helpful to also include the response message alongside the status code in the logs for better traceability and debugging.
about 1 month ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Enhanced support for Language Adapters

Existing Language adapters are compatible with outdated services on partner platforms. Currently only google V1 voice is supported with a language adapter which leads to multiple critical variables such as timeout duration not being passed properl...
about 2 months ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted