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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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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.

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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...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under 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 ...
over 2 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.
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Not under consideration

Request for password reset from cognos login screen

Need to raise and enhancement for resetting the password from Cognos login screen itself when ever they need. Can you please let me know the steps to raise enhancement. Business Justification: It should be possible for the user to change password ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Implement pop-up notification for user session inactivity timeouts.

This would be useful for users when they are programing a report and exceed the session inactivity timeout. If a user is spending time programming a report or dashboard and their session times out they will lose their work when the go to save. If ...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Parameterized url with Azure OIDC has limitation of 4096 Bytes

Unlike IBM Directory Service (Or some Local Authentication Providers) Azure AZ supports only 4096 Bytes in the request url in its authorization end Point. This is causing issue with existing report with large columns passed to Cognos as query stri...
6 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Support for pulling Data Source credentials from HashiCorp Vault password stores (and other cloud native password vaults)

We have requirements driven by IT to standardize on storing passwords for applications in HashiCorp Vault, a centralized password store that enables fine-grained access to the credentials. Today, we have to create crude integration scripts to main...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Remove list of Recent Projects listed in FM welcome screen

In a multi-tenancy (shared) environment for Framework Manager, allow the need to remove the list of Recent Projects (files) listed on the Welcome Screen. Currently the default setting is 4: <Preference Name="RecentProjectListSize">4</Pref...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Not under consideration

Allow Users to Modify Data Sources, but Not Create New Ones

We have permissions and capabilities configured so that users are able to change their own signon passwords and refresh their own schemas. This supports us significantly in our efforts to allow self service for our users. The users with this abili...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Enable kerberos/certificate authentication for Cognos content store in z/OS DB2

When building Cognos content store in z/OS DB2, we need to provide id/password on Cognos configuration portal for DB2 connections. We don't have known password for most IDs in z/OS due to security policy and most DB2 applications have supported Ke...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration