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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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MWS - NO RATE LIMIT ON FILE UPLOAD

As part of ticket: TS020360245, seems "NO RATE LIMIT ON FILE UPLOAD for MWS" exists meaning which means an attacker gaining access can make system fail by uploading too many files. Could you please think of this vulnerability and enforce checks?
6 days ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

MWS - Two factor authentication using OIDC protocol

We have created ticket: TS020839599 for assistance and seems "MWS - Two factor authentication using OIDC protocol" is currently nor available. As part of enhance security + regulatory compliance for finance domain, it would really help if 2FA is i...
6 days ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

Lineage should be available in reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules

Cognos lineage works for reports (not interactive mode) using framework packages. Lineage should be available also in the newer cognos tools like reports(interactive mode)/dashboards/data modules. Should be provided as built in to cognos and not a...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Future consideration

trigger.sh no plaintext password as parameter

trigger.sh from Cognos has a password parameter, which need the password in plaintext. While the command is running the password can be seen in the prozess table, which typicaly will be seen by monitoring tools. The password parameter should not b...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Planned for future release

Manage/view another users scheduled report/activities without using an Analytics Administrator license

There are hundreds of scheduled reports that are managed by departmental users. if the owners of the scheduled reports are unavailable and/or the schedules need to be re-run, The Activities screen lets them see the progress of their activities in ...
about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted

Configure Cognos Mail Server using OAuth

With the deprecation of basic authentication scheduled for October, the configuration of our SMTP server (Exchange online) will no longer work as this uses basic authentication. We need a way to use OAuth to connect to our 365 smtp server. There i...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

BPM designer should not use dropdowns for critical settings

When hovering over a dropdown, eclipse lets you update it with scrollwheel and doesn't force you to click it first. Unless the dropdown update behavior can be prevented when not clicked, these critical settings should use other UI modules, like ra...
about 1 month ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

Accessibility in all supported web browsers and multiple screen readers

508 compliance requires application to be accessible when using a variety of major web browsers (i.e., Chrome, MS Edge) and screen readers. Cognos Analytics currently states that accessibility features are only supported with Firefox and JAWS scre...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Add permissions for queries

In customer setups we usually have to define "system queries" to be used by jobs, case investigation, hyperlinks. It is a very common scenario when users change such queries to perform some searches and break the system setup- hyperlinks showing e...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Safer Payments / Business 1 Future consideration

add UTF-8 BOM from within Cognos automatically

When a user downloads a CSV and wants to open it in Excel the users normally just double click on the CSV -> a UTF-8 encoded CSV without the BOM "header" shows up incorrect due to special language characters. Adding the BOM to the UTF-8 automat...
2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Submitted