IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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Automatic backup for PAW assets/ Manage PAW snapshots programatically

Currently, the data tier can be backed up by launching .bat scripts. (to create a zip) PAW reports are totally managed in the docker content store and we have no programmatic access to the creation of Snapshots. Snapshots can only be managed throu...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Not under consideration

Manage TM1 instance administration programatically (on cloud)

Currently on cloud, there is no way to manage the start/stop of TM1 servers programmatically. The only way to stop/start an instance is by going through PAW Administration or schedule an automatic restart by asking the cloud ops. On premise, we ha...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

select a facet and immediately change the display to the facet that is relevant to the selected information

For example, let's say a facet is the "sports.types_of_sports" field, and it offers the following options: [ ] basketball [ ] baseball [ ] football And the neighboring facet is the "sports.equipment" field, which offers the following options...
about 1 year ago in Watson Discovery 0 Submitted

Improve the certificate chain validation step in Cognos Configuration so that it also checks 3rd-Party certs, and alerts if expiry is approaching.

We recently had production outage due to intermediate certificate expiry, while server certificate was valid. Please consider adding a feature to check expiry dates on ALL certificates in the "encryption" chain: root, intermeate(s) and server, and...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

FAP Service.properties - Password Encryption

Hi, at our client Atlantic Group d.d. during upgrade of PA,CA,CC client set request to eliminate all hardcoded passwords on any file on all models. We successfully eliminated them by using inbuilt encryption (e.g. in PA) or if password was in .bat...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Future consideration

When we are scheduling the report via trigger, password should be hidden or we should be able to run the trigger without password

as you understand it is dangerous to hardcode password in a bat file where it is visible by anyone
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Future consideration

support installing primary host in silent mode

When moving Symphony clusters to AWS/Azure, not allowing to install primary host(first one) in a silent mode such as Windows bat script is really unfriendly to us. And brough us lots of inconvenience and extra work. Can you make it happen in 7.3 a...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration

Enable addition of JVM arguments via Cognos Configuration tool for TLS 1.2 updates

As part of TLS 1.2 set-up, (https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/connection-sql-server-fails-when-server-configured-use-tls-12-or-connecting-sql-server-2016), JVM arguments need to be added. Post these changes, the Cognos Configuration tool should be...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow exclusion of columns from row compression to reduce overflows on updates

We have many large tables in our data warehouse that hold historized data records. There are four date columns:- begin of visibility based on processing time (BAT_BEGIN)- end of visibility based on processing time (BAT_END)- begin of visibility ba...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Request to Re-enable Component Selection During Planning Analytics Upgrade

Dear IBM Support, I would like to suggest reintroducing the option to select or unselect components during the upgrade process of IBM Planning Analytics. This feature was available in previous versions but appears to be missing in the upgrade from...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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