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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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Search results: Data Access and Modelling

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Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration

Search should look for Ids, not just labels

WIthin Data Modules and Reports you can for items. For example, I could search for 'Sales'. This will show me all the items with Sales in the name. However, within reports and data module expressions, it is an objects Id that is shown and not the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1

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...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release

Data Module- Dynamic Data Item Screen Tip

Automate Screen tip for data items in the Data Module so the developers do not have to manually type a text under Screen tip for data items. An enhanced option would allow a developer to select a data item field under Screen tip properties in Data...
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

DBT Semantic layer integration

Universal semantic layer for all analytics tools, including Cognos Analytics. If Cognos wants to stay relevant, and not replaced by alternative products, please embrace the modern stack and a universal semantic layer. Many years ago, it was at mul...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Support Microsoft Dynamics as a data source

We have a lot of application development be done using Microsoft Dynamics, because Power BI supports Dynamics and the option sets, departments end up using Power BI and Cognos isn't consider as a reporting option even thou we also have Cognos.
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Data Server Metadata - Kerberos Connection

Kerberos, or other passwordless connections are becoming the standard authentication method for data sources. Data Servers are requirements to use web-based modelling. However, to pull metadata in a data server connection requires the user to have...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Prompt choice of Data Sets

In Cognos Analytics we can create a Data Source and in that Data Source define multiple connections. Then if a report is developed using that Data Source, at report runtime we will be prompted to choose which connection to use. Similar functionali...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Not under consideration