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

Support for Transient Data through MDM.

Need support to send Transient Data through MDM without having to store it in DB. Like Co-relation IDs, Trace IDs, Some Header Information so that we can use them for logging and tracking.
about 1 month ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Permissions control to allow / block use of inspector (and other webapps)

Currently there appears to be no way to control which users to be able to log into inspector - if they have access to the standard apis then they can just log into it. We would like some more specific controls, so that we can specify groups that a...
22 days ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

There is growing demand to have longer first name, would like the MDM First name length be increased

Currently lot of jurisdiction has implemented IDS to support longer name, as there is a large demand to increase the name length due to many immigrants come to north America . Example, Ontario Health has created IDS for name, which has below lengt...
8 months ago in Master Data Management 2 Under review

Add support on Windows 11 to MDM AE 12.0

As Windows 10 is being phased out on the customer and they are not considering the migration to MDM AE 14.0 for the time being, there is a need to add support to Windows 11 for MDM AE 12.0.
10 months ago in Master Data Management 4 Functionality already exists

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

Master Data Management support on DB2 v12.1

DB2 v12.1 support for Master Data Management. DB2 v11.5.7.* EOS is April 2027.
about 2 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted