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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 5, 2018

Recover from bad cookies during login process

Refer to case #TS000127886 and TS000083033

When Cognos Analytics encounters a bad cookie (in this case created by SecureAuth ... the cookie name has spaces in it), it acts like it got a good cookie which it was not able to use, and informs the user that there was an Invalid Login Response. The offending cookie (which is not identified, so most customers wouldn't know which one) must be cleared before the user can log into Cognos from that machine or wait up to 30 days for that cookie to expire (this particular cookie is there to keep a user from doing two-factor auth more than every 30 days).

But it doesn't matter. Other software seems to deal with it just fine.

This all happens before the user is even prompted for an id and password. In fact, the user will never be prompted for this until the cookie is cleared. At the very least, if Cognos encounters an invalid login response, it should just prompt for credentials. Not keep the user from logging in.