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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Cognos Analytics

System Level Report Governors

Problem A single report attempted to save an output of approximately 3 million rows to the Content Store and it brought the platform to a halt. Today there is no guardrail to prevent a single oversized report result set from consuming excessive re...
8 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config Submitted

Condensed Page Layout

Business Justification / Description Maximo is widely used across industries for high-volume, transaction-intensive workflows such as procurement, maintenance, and inventory management. However, current standard application layouts are not optimiz...
9 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Other Submitted

Post Quantum Crypto (PQC) Modernization - Support for Cognos Analytics

Our State Farm client looking for Cognos Analytics to support Post Quantum Crypto (PQC). CA PM team should be made aware and prioritize upgrading the encryption algorithms to keep up with the changing security requirements.
10 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

As dashboard designer, we would like to be able to set the border width on visualization

To make a dashboard more attractive, aestheticism is essential Having control on the width of the border (left, top, right, bottom) would allow much more possibilities in term of the design and make the dashboards look modern
12 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Dashboard Submitted

IBM has discontinued bundling iKeyman with Java Runtime Environment (JRE) starting at version 11, with complete removal by JRE 17. This legacy GUI tool was essential for managing SSL keystores in Cognos 12.1.x and Planning Analytics. We propose that IBM include a modern, alternative GUI-based keystore management tool within the Cognos and Planning Analytics packages to replace iKeyman's functionality and bridge the gap left by its discontinuation.

Your idea and why is it useful: iKeyman provided an intuitive visual interface for inspecting and managing SSL keystores, making it invaluable during critical troubleshooting situations and complex SSL installations. While command-line alternative...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

CSP strict-dynamic usage

Would like the addition of support for the use of CSP strict-dynamic in CSP policies. The is would provide the ability to provide nonces on scripts. This could also generally be defined as "add support for CSP 3", as only CSP 1/2 are currently sup...
14 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

CAMTool.jar make password encoded, and changeable, not hardcoded in the file.

Hardcoded default keystore password `NoPassWordSet` reported in Cognos CAMKeystore upgrader (`CAMTool.jar`)
16 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Adjustable column width in Activities view

Request: Please enable users to adjust the column width in the Activities view. Currently, the columns cannot be enlarged, which makes it difficult to read for example longer names of executed reports. This is a usability issue, especially since t...
17 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration Submitted

Audit-Compliant Report Metadata: Separate Last Accessed, Last Modified, and Last Data Refreshed Timestamps

Problem Statement Currently, when users run a report, the metadata timestamp behavior can appear as if the report was modified, which creates confusion during internal and external audits.For audit purposes, Last Modified should represent only act...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

Remove development dependencies from node-services/services/.../package-lock.json in release artifacts

DescriptionIn the current release packaging, package-lock.json under node-services/services/... includes development dependencies that are not used at runtime. Security scanners still parse these entries and repeatedly flag vulnerabilities (for ex...
18 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Security Submitted

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