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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


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Workspace Cognos Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 31, 2016

Cognos URls have high-bit charcters

PMR 30376,227,000: Cognos 10.2.2 Bi Server - Cognos admin urls have high-bit characters

We use Microsoft Threat management gateway (TMG) firewall/reverse proxy to allow access for external url, however it blocks any urls which may have high bit characters. When we are trying to access Cognos Admin and try to navigate groups that we have created. The groups are under folder named: “CSAA User Groups” and none of the group name has any special character other than space or underscore. Could you please advise how we can ensure that none of the Cognos urls comes with high bit characters. https://qa-biservices.pncie.com/ibmcognos/cgi-bin/cognosisapi.dll?b_acti on=xts.run&m=portal/legacy_tools/tools_directory.xts&m_path=CAMID(%22%3a %22)%2fnamespaceFolder%5b%40name%3d%27CSAA%20User%20Groups%e2%80%ac%27%5 d&tool_tab=u Error Code: 500 Internal Server Error. The request was rejected by the HTTP filter. Contact the server administrator. (12217) These are typically characters from languages that require more than 8 bits to represent the characters of the language, and therefore use 16 bits. For example, URLs that contain a double-byte character set (DBCS) or Latin 1 characters will be blocked. This can help block some attacks on Web servers running Internet Information Services (IIS), but may also block requests and responses that contain characters from one of several languages that require high-bit characters. When you select Block high bit characters, this can impact scenarios such as Outlook Web Access publishing, Microsoft Windows SharePoint Portal Server publishing, and any scenario in which a GET request passes a parameter that includes a character from a DBCS.