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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    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?
    5 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...
    5 days ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

    An NLG (Natural Language Generation) Customization Studio for Watson in Cognos

    Create a dedicated "NLG Studio" within Cognos Analytics that allows administrators and business users to customize the tone, terminology, and key metrics used in Watson's automated insights. Users could create and save custom narrative templates f...
    about 2 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Submitted

    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

    Ability to hide button 'Automatic Dashboard' via role customization or user capability

    There is a new function 'Automatic Dashboard' in Cognos 12.0.4 which cannot be hidden from our users, neither with role customization nor with user capability. There are two main issues with that function so we want to have the ability to hide it....
    10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 2 Not under consideration

    Configurable "smarts"

    Currently "smarts" is not configurable by the Cognos admin. We have an issue with 100% CPU utilization over a longer period of time (~ 20 min.) after creating a data module. There were extensive "smarts" actions which utilized all CPU cores by 100...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0 Not under consideration

    Visual C++ 2013 EOS

    TS016714232 We've noticed that Visual C++ 2013 is a built-in component in Symphony package. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-symphony/7.3.0?topic=configurations-software-included-spectrum-symphony This has been EOS just since April 2024. So wh...
    over 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

    redirection and compatibility between 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4.0_64’ and 'Platform.Symphony.Soam.Net4’ in 7.1.2 and that in 7.3

    From: Dennis Xiao <dxiao@ca.ibm.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2025 4:28 PM To: Stuart, James <james.stuart@ubs.com>; Jeff Karmiol <jkarmiol@ca.ibm.com> Cc: Liao, Jiabin <jiabin.liao@ubs.com>; Qiu, David <david.qiu@ubs.co...
    6 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Submitted

    Have better documentation on how to work (How to ask and what to expect) with AI Assistant

    Customer comments: We are just learning Assistant and preparing for training sessions for business users before deploying. It would be nice if we can explain the why and when of each scenario because we will surely be asked the same questions. Wit...
    over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / AI/Smarts 0

    SSH Server CBC Mode Ciphers Enabled on InfraDC SSH port 8022.

    Security scan has identified SSH Server CBC Mode Ciphers Enabled on InfraDC SSH port 8022. We tried disabling CBC ciphers from java.security config file however it does not work. Below are vulnerabilities which have been identified. Supports follo...
    7 months ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

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