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Spark job to be able to access, read and write on external database without the credentials being exposed anywhere (instance, logs, job metadata, etc…)

We want to create a job on a Spark instance of the Analytics Engine powered by Apache Spark that runs a Spark application reading from and writing to an Exasol database. To enable database access, we need to pass our user credentials into the job....
about 1 month ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Ability to paste '-' characters as 0.

0 values formatted as a '-' in Excel cannot be pasted into Planning Analytics. This causes a spreading error. Users often format 0 values as a '-'. It would be helpful if Planning Analytics could interpret '-' as a 0 on paste.
30 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Have an option to provide a minimal error (with reference code) without any detail, in the user-facing UI.

Currently the minimal errors (as opposed to Detailed Errors) still give a great deal of information in the Stack Trace. It would be good for security if we could opt to have the user given a very minimal message "Error occurred - Please contact yo...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Future consideration

Make the -H switch mandatory when generating a CSR with Third-Party Certificate Tool, OR either print a warning, or default to the current host if not specified.

Currently the documentation for 12.1.0 does not specify, in the topic for generation of CSR files (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cognos-analytics/12.1.x?topic=certificate-create-signing-request-csr-files), that at least one Subject Alternative Name ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

Remove dependency for unsafe CSP headers

Our company ships a product that leverages Cognos Analytics. Our Pentest results have, for years, flagged that Cognos uses the following CSP headers: 'unsafe-inline' - allow inline scripts in our index.html 'unsafe-eval' - allow any eval() in our ...
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Submitted

enable navigation of users setup in AzureAD for Cognos Analytics setup with OpenID Connect namespace with Azure AD

PAIN POINT: Cognos Analytics admistratos can currently not navegate,view or search users which exist in AZURE AD when Cognos Analytics is setup with OpenID Connect namespace to authenticate with Azure AD; only error prone and time consuming creati...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

In-build OIDC - CJAP feature in Cognos Analytics to Manage the Multiple AD namespaces

For Every major version release of Cognos Analytics, CJAP needs to updated with latest libraries and compiled. Customers feeling this approach being more expensive and time consuming process. Instead of that Customers looking for in-build OIDC - C...
4 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

Add a Trace Security in order to understand how a right is evaluated by the engine

As for business rules, PAL/TM1, security could be a mix of data and/or rules on the system security objects. For business rules, we can use the "trace calculations" which is really a great feature. For security, we can only use... our brain so a "...
over 2 years ago in Analytics Engine 3 Not under consideration

Access Cognos REST API via Gateway URL

Currently, IBM Cognos Analytics only officially supports REST API access via the dispatcher URL. While technically possible, using the Gateway URL for REST API access is not supported. This limitation presents challenges for customers whose networ...
7 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Future consideration

MDE Job is failed with error "Deployment not found with given id"

We found the issue related to the Spark/MDE blocker issue. MDE job triggered a spark-runtime deployment first The spark-runtime deployment then triggered corresponding spark-master/worker pods If the 1st spark-master/worker pod does not come up wi...
over 1 year ago in Analytics Engine 0 Under review