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Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 23, 2020

RELATED IDEAS

Provide a method to mass update passwords for ODBC TIs

Currently, Planning Analytics provides two ways to save credentials for ODBC TIs:

  1. Save credentials in ecrypted form within each TI

  2. Save credentials in plain-text in a cube so that credentials can be retrieved at run-time.

The first option makes it prohibitively difficult to manage credentials when rotating passwords. In an environment with more than a thousand ODBC TIs, an extended amount of time would need to be spent updating the password within each TI in order to satisfy security best-practices.

As for the second option, although it provides a centralised location where credentails can easily be updated, it is a non-starter completely. No IT/Security Risk Management team would sign off on credentials being stored in plain-text.


As a result, we'd like IBM to provide a mechanism through which ODBC TI passwords can be mass updated through one of the following methods:

  1. an external tool that can update passwords for TIs

  2. a REST API endpoint to update passwords for TIs

  3. enable Planning Analytics TIs to retrieve credentials from industry standard vault products

Needed by Date Jul 31, 2020
  • Admin
    Stuart King
    Reply
    |     Jun 9, 2021

    Added to roadmap

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