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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    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

    Please increase size of LAST_FAILURE_REASON column in Task Attributes table.

    The SSM and SIM error log is saved in LAST_FAILURE_REASON column of Task Attributes table. It is set to 2048 chars currently. However, the error message is much longer than 2048 chars. So we can't see the whole error message in Task Attributes tab...
    about 1 year ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Submitted

    Hide option for dispatcher URL from past activities under My Schedules and Subscriptions

    My Schedules and Subscriptions menu item is typically allowed for all consumer users with scheduling capability. Under Past activities window, report run details shows target dispatcher (URL) report run against, which shows app server name/IP and ...
    about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

    Maintain Target Capacity Supportive for scheduled demand

    To descrease the launching instance time, PIMCO use scheduled request for spot instance a lot. However Amazon EC2 terminates Spot Instances when they are interrupted. We request to support Maintain Target Capacity feature for spot fleet to maintai...
    7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

    Improve Multicluster overflow capabilities

    The main issue with multi-cluster is the inability to set rules for returning tasks to the primary cluster. For example, if the primary site becomes free after tasks have been sent to a secondary site, it would be beneficial to return the load to ...
    7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Submitted

    From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute).

    From Symphony GUI should be able to export the data of all the hosts (Manager/SSM/Compute). We are requesting you please provide us the export functionality, so we can export all the data from GUI to the excel spreadsheet. As present there is no s...
    8 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 4 Future 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 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 3 Not under consideration

    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 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

    Implement a relying-party backchannel logout URL to allow for Single Signout.

    When integrating Cognos elements into a portal, secured against OIDC namespace, it would be helpful if we could employ token-based single-signout from our OIDC provider, rather than having to force the users to log-out manually from Cognos Analyti...
    almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Not under consideration

    Improve the certificate chain validation step in Cognos Configuration so that it also checks 3rd-Party certs, and alerts if expiry is approaching.

    We recently had production outage due to intermediate certificate expiry, while server certificate was valid. Please consider adding a feature to check expiry dates on ALL certificates in the "encryption" chain: root, intermeate(s) and server, and...
    8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

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