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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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Cognos Analytics

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Allowlist only the HTML tags that wont trigger any execution in the browser

As a part of Pent test,it was observed that IBM Cognos application is vulnerable to Stored-XSS occurs when a malicious script is injected directly into a vulnerable web application. The application accepts all type of inputs without validation ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Future consideration

Additional ciphers needed for NSS library

Hello, If possible, please add additional ciphers to the NSS library for the following Cognos version: 11.1.7 11.2.1 11.2.2 11.2.3 The additional ciphers are: TLSv1.2 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 We...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Administration 0 Future consideration

Enhance advanced dispatcher routing to allow for AdHoc/Non-Core reports to be routed differently to "Approved" reports.

This would be useful, as it would allow the organisation to ensure efficient execution of "approved" reports (possibly driven by an administrative flag in the product) to dedicated resources, whereas other reports would be routed to a default rout...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 0 Future consideration

Automated process to update global parameters

Global parameters are very useful for different scenarios especially for giving users the right time frame (e.g. last invoice date, last year to consider etc.). Currently there is no option to update global parameters in an automated way. Idea: De...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

allow cognos to burst a report with different email address without the need of an active user account

congos admin and internal security team would prefer not to have to use and active service account user to schedule a report for bursting, rather use an alternate email address that is set in cognos configuration if possible. pain piont of concern...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

CA: Error correcting algorithm for invalid members/MUNs

Hello we would expect having same behavior as planing analytics workspace as using same restapi connector in CA - if an MDX query comes back with members not found - perform a test 'drop bad tuples' query to check all members with parents (aa^bb) ...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

Data Source Connections - Set Password Dynamically

Problem / Use Case - In Cognos Data source connections can be created in multiple places. Either of the below cases we need to enter the password manually. Considering knowing the password in Production databases is a Security Risk. So Implement a...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Should be able to schedule package enrichment

You can enrich a reporting package in 2 ways: automatic vs manual enrichment. The problem is that the steps to enrich a package (using either of the above selections) have to be executed manually. Someone needs to login, navigate to the package, m...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Future consideration

Implement an option to read DB credentials from AWS Secret Manager rather than embedding a signon in Cognos Analytics.

Centralised secrets management lowers administration overhead - being able to integrate with a standard secrets repository and leverage those security factors would reduce maintenance within Cognos Analytics.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Dynamic PDF Secure Password

Customers want to leverage the PDF Secure Password functionality but want the password abstracted away to stored in a database rather than hardcoded in the Cognos job or schedule.
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 1 Future consideration