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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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Ability to include calculations in navigation paths even if they are not part of a table

Sometimes dashboard authors would like to create a navigation path that includes a calculation that is not within a table. This is necessary when there is logic within the calculation that uses data from 2 or more tables. As a workaround, you can ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Automatic loading of data in spreadsheet files

Scenario: We uploaded spreadsheet files in Cognos Analytics and on these we created a data module. Now we need to update the data contained in the speadsheets weekly. Currently there is no functionality to upload automatically the spreadsheet files.
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Enable the creation of custom governance artifacts using IBM Knowledge Catalog

This is a required capability to meet the requirements of Data Governance Processes at the customer. They want to use this custom artifact to model a concept similar to a "subject area", which needs specific attributes to be meaningful for their d...
9 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

Provide Export/Report of customized Features

Need an method to compare the customized Features between environments (Dev/QA/Prod). Currently, updating Features (Manage --> Accounts --> Cognos.... then under group properties, Customization tab, Features) is a manual process and must be ...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Add or sync CAM groups with PA Workspace via PA Tm1

We have a scenario where the customer has Azure AD and use as it an Identity Provider for all their business applications. Currently on their PA Local On-premises servers the CA CAM is connected to the Azure AD namespace via OpenID connect for use...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Allow Content Store database to be stored in Always On High Availability SQLServer.

Please support the Content Store DB within SQL Server Always On - High Availability. We have proved this does work using MSSQL JDBC driver 6.4, on Cognos Analytics 11R11, however it should be supported officially by IBM.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

CDC for Oracle(version 11.4) does not work with longer identifiers than 30 bytes.

Use cases for the system: updates source data.System: continous mirroring Scenario:・prepare oracle12c with definition 30 bytes over identifier.・and implements CDC for oracle.・update some data on source database.・check to flat file. There is nothin...
about 5 years ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 5 Planned for future release

Enable the possibilities to a Cognos Expert to add new Vendor Specific Function entry for not supported database (eg. Redshift)

The purpose of Cognos is to allow each user not to know the language of the Database used, lacking the list of functions into the Expression Definition for some databases, the goal of the product fails. users are not helped to understand what are ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

GIT integration on IBM PA Workspace

The GIT integration on IBM PA Workspace workbenches is great for database objects. It would however be helpful to have the option to include view objects in Workspace workbooks in the GIT integration, including underlying MDX code for views.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Add support for Alma Linux

Our ask is for IBM support for Alma Linux as the underlying OS for CDC replication.
4 months ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 1 Future consideration