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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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 Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 3, 2017

CA 11.0.5 with Siteminder - URL contains invalid characters ('~')

we have to check the possibility to provide the Cognos Analytics 11.0.5 Installation on our Windows Environment (2 tiers - Web and APP/CM). On the Web(IIS 7.5) is Siteminder WebAgent Running. After Configuration we are trying to login and receiving Error Message 500 HTTP/.. (see attached Screenshot) In the Siteminder Log we can see entries like: [2448/1356][Fri Feb 17 2017 09:41:08][CSmHttpPlugin.cpp:532][ERROR] URL contains invalid characters. Exiting with HTTP 500 server error '00-0002 We got to know from Siteminder team that tilde Character '~' is included in standard list of Bad Character.. badurlchars='//,./,/*,*.,~,\,%00-%1f,%7f-%ff,%25'. Opinion from Siteminder Team: ". If you remove it from the list, you should be aware of the possible risk, that an attacker may use the special meaning of this character (home directory of the user) for some attack." How can we protect it? what could be Solution for it? Creating of some Whitelist on Siteminder Policy Server with particularly pattern like ../ca11/bi/vi* not possible