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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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Visible Owner ID of message on OAC screen

we don't have visible owner ID when viewing the message, it is important to find out to which user group it belongs to
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

FTM DB and Datasharing recommendation

Business continuity, High Availability, Scalability, and Performance lead the decision to go with a multi-instance topology, running more than one Financial Transaction Manager instance two or more logical partitions, sharing the same FTM Database...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Star schema grouping in data modules

Add this functionality that is present in FM and it is important. Every cognos users would benefit a quick construction of schemas that clarify which path the query is following when you have many tables connected.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 4 Not under consideration

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...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

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

Configurable "smarts"

Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

Change the data module used within a report without breaking the report

Reports often need to be repointed to different data sources from those that were used to create them. Scenario 1. For example we notice an error in a data module. In a typical production system we cant just update the live data module, we could b...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

More control over local processing

More control over where to process which part of a report: on database or local, make visible when the report is being processed locally (after run, on development). Alternative: Locally processed report runs must be more stable and reliable: a) S...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

To encrypt all the data in FTM tables.

The client has identified a risk and asked us to implement encryption for all data stored in FTM (Financial Transaction Manager) tables in the FTM version 3.2.12 on z/OS
5 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Functionality already exists

Mark in FTM Base the master message that is sent to MER for printing

The problem is when users have several messages to send from FTM Base to MER for print. In the meantime they receive another message and when they return to search again, they lose track of which message they were on and it can happen that the scr...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration