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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


Status Future consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Security
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 28, 2023

Json Key Files for Google Big Query Connections have credentials in Clear Text (Not secured)

When creating Google Big Query connection in Cognos Analytics it requires to add the JSON Key file location in the connection string. The JSON key file is stored on the local Cognos dispatchers and the JSON files will have sensitive security information such as username and passwords in CLEAR TEXT. Our global security team finds this to be a major security risk. To help mitigate the security risk, one of the following enhancement requests can be implemented:

1) Possibility of Cognos allowing key files to be stored in secured Vault solution and accessing them only on Runtime. The files will be stored in the Vault encrypted and the data will be decrypted at runtime.

2) Possibility of allowing the keys to be entered at the connection creation time and storing the keys encrypted in the Cognos Content Store. This solution is how SQL Server connections work to today for username and password.

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)