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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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enable navigation of users setup in AzureAD for Cognos Analytics setup with OpenID Connect namespace with Azure AD

PAIN POINT: Cognos Analytics admistratos can currently not navegate,view or search users which exist in AZURE AD when Cognos Analytics is setup with OpenID Connect namespace to authenticate with Azure AD; only error prone and time consuming creati...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Enable scheduling when using smartcard and kerberos constrained delegation

Using smartcard to login to CA means no username/pwd are stored in the system. This is a problem when scheduling. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). Bottom line: a system configured with kerberos constrained dele...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Hide show generated sql

For security reason i would be able to hide to basic users the possibility to show generated sql and so view the internal tables , connection,schema etc.
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Future consideration

Should be possible to schedule dataset refresh, reports etc using smartcard login together with Kerberos constrained delegation

Users are using smartcard login to CA. This means no username and pwd are stored in AD. Currently scheduling in CA requires saved credentials (username/pwd). On top of that the system is configured with kerberos constrained delegation. A solution ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Non-Path Traversal for PDF viewer

Corporate Web Application Firewalls consider the use of path traversal syntax to be a security violation. Cognos 11.2.1 uses path traversal to render pdf reports interactively. This violates standard web security implementations.
about 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Not under consideration

Implement functionality where characters and text strings mandated by corporate security can be restricted from Report names, and the Search box.

It has been suggested by security auditors that we should restrict the use of special characters, <script> tags, etc., in the search box within Cognos Analytics, or implement a setting which will restrict the use of all special and meta char...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Logoff URL Improvements

There are two scenarios that don't seem to be currently supported in relation to the logoff URL that would be very beneficial. If a session times out due to inactivity, it doesn't appear to redirect to the logoff URL, if configured, which can lead...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

CIS benchmark guide for Cognos Analytics

We are OEM to IBM Cognos Analytics and our internal security teams expect all product owners to submit CIS (security hardening) guidelines document. I am able to find for DB2 at https://www.cisecurity.org/benchmark/ibm_db2 But I can't find any for...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Cognos Analytics Support for AIP (Azure Information Protection)

Azure Information Protection (AIP) is a cloud-based solution that enables organizations to discover, classify, and protect documents and emails by applying labels to content. AIP is part of the Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) solution, and ...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 2 Future consideration

Improved Customization Section

Within Cognos you have the ability to setup roles where you can customize what shows and what is hidden from a user. The problem is if a user is in multiple roles, any customizations that have been unchecked will enforce deny no matter what the ro...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration