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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.

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



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In-place Upgrade Information Server 11.5 to 11.7

Build a in-place upgrade for IBM Infosphere Information Server Suite to upgrade from version 11.5.x to version 11.7.x. For version 11.5.x there was a mod-pack available to upgrade from version 11.3.x to 11.5. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview....
almost 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

Authentication Methods

Provide for authentication to Azure Snowflake databases via authentication by OAuth token, or authentication by AAD with external browser, or authentication using SSHK-keypair.
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered

Auto start Zookeeper, Solr and Kafka after WAS/Engine restart

We are actively using Information Analyzer enterprise wide and with multiple teams. Zookeeper and Solar Services needs restart after IIS WAS and Engine restart, IA thin client error out it needs zookeeper/solar restart Auto start Zookeeper, Solr a...
over 7 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

enable mobile apps for app based CONDITIONAL ACCESS in order to integrate Cognos with MSN Intune security

Enablement of new mobile app "Cognos Analytics Mobile" and ideally the older "Cognos Analytics Reports" for app based CONDITIONAL ACCESS: This will allow integration of Cognos Analytics with Microsoft Intune security described here: https://docs.m...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Delivered

Support for API Keys for REST and SDK

We are in the process of moving to CA in the cloud and we switched authentication provider from AD to Okta. This causes a problem because Cognos requires a setting change in Okta called password grant to allow a user to authenticate using REST or ...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Delivered

Support for Cognos Analytics to be in-line with Chrome's security changes to cookie handling

https://developers.google.com/privacy-sandbox/blog/cookie-countdown-2023oct?hl=en As per the above article, Google aims to make a change in Chrome to restrict cookies when used as a third-party. This impacts Cognos as Cognos is often used by enter...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Delivered

Enhanecement request to have file connector accept a list of hosts, and not just a single host name

Client uses orc and Avro HDFS formats, which in turn use File Connector stage instead of Big Data File stage. The file connector leverages WebHDFS and has a “host” property that must be explicitlyset to point to an active name node, in order f...
over 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

DataStage support Java 1.8

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.12 only supports Java 1.8 however the DataStage Engine only supports Java 7.1.3.10 and 7.1.4.5.
about 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

IIS DataStage installer should support TLS

After IIS DataStage is enabled for TLS, a patch installation fails to connect to xmeta.
over 6 years ago in Information Server 0 Delivered

Update (or better yet remove) the NSS libraries for Windows

I'm creating this "idea" because I had opened a support case with a company called Deltek concerning one of their products that uses Cognos Analytics. Cognos does not properly report its capability to use higher strength TLS ciphers and signature ...
over 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Delivered