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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Data Access and Modelling

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Expand Search in Data Module

When editing a data module, there is a search bar at the top of the source tree. When I type into that box, it returns only items that contain a match in the Label property. Sometimes it is desirable to be able to search for the name from the sour...
25 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Support more than 500 columns per table in a Data Module

We have tables that have more than 500 columns. When we try to use them in a Data Module we get this error: The expression is not valid. MSR-GEN-0103 The entered SQL statement returned 3209 columns. Change your SQL statement to return up to a maxi...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Cognos Analytics integration with Open Source ETL

Currently, the TELCEL client has an open source ETL in which they have more than 100 processes, for transformation, the presentation layer is with Cognos Analytics 11.7. The ETL is Pentaho Data Integration V 8.2 (PDI) also known as Kettle. TELCEL ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Ralph Davis

Cognos Data Modules need expanded capabilities to model Planning analytics cubes. Basic model can be created, but limited in scope. As a result, any self service is diminished in the COgnos Dashboard environment.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Support try_cast Trino function in Cognos

There is an interesting function called "try_cast" for Trino but it doesn't work in Cognos. It leads to a syntax error when executing the report. Our customers often get conversion errors when using "cast" function, for example from varchar to dec...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Submitted

Connect to Infor on AWS DataLake

We are moving to use Infor on AWS Datalake. We have problem with set up data connection. Contacted Cognos support and they said Infor AWS is not supported data source. Now we are having issue using Cognos as reporting tools. Wondering if IBM can a...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

IBM provides Cognos Analytics official support for AWS RDS with Content Store

The client is migrating the existing environment to cloud (AWS). However, for Cognos Analytics, the Content Store with AWS RDS connection is not officially supported by IBM. Is there any roadmap for supporting cloud database in the future?
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

API should be updated to above API Version 54 in Cognos to query Salesforce Healthcare Cloud data

To query the data for Salesforce Healthcare Cloud it is required to have a minimum apiversion of 54 for the connector. Currently Cognos 12 supports only upto apiversion 49. When connected to salesforce using this version of the api, not able to do...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

SSO for snowflake datasource

We have a feature built using .net to upload a file and filter the data in cognos based on the content in the file, while running the reports. This is used to apply a filter for over 100 records. This feature works based on the user login id. If w...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data sets based on cross tab

Currently data sets can be created based on "list objects". In many cases a cross-tab is needed and can be a very big help. In eg. Impromptu it was possible to create a "hotfile" based on lists or cross-tab. This option is needed in Analytics data...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration