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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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).


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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:


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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.

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Use certified hashing function bcrypt/Argon2 in users.xml

Symphony 7.3.2 uses AES-128 encryption for the passwords storage in the local users.xml file, which is not compliant with Citi Cryptography Standard. Only below hashing algorithms are approved for passwords hashing. Citi requests IBM to use bcrypt...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Request for TurboIntegrator (TI) Editor with Log Access in PAfE

Dear Product Management Team, I would like to propose adding a TurboIntegrator (TI) Editor to IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE), including the ability to access relevant logs, as this would greatly improve the user experience and efficiency ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Rules Editor for PAfE

Dear Product Management Team, I would like to propose adding a Rules Editor to IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE), as this feature would significantly enhance the user experience for many of our team members. Many users who have worked extens...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Parallel log file archival and retrieval

Log archival / retrieval is performed by a single thread. This can lead to log archival stuck e.g. if log file need to be retrieved to be added to online backup include logs. This is also problematic if multiple log files need to be retrieved duri...
over 7 years ago in Db2 1 Future consideration

Implement a possibility to configure the ctrlChars option for dataset storage in DB2

When we enable the dataset storage in DB2 and attempt to pull in data warehouse data into a dataset, we get a failure to store the data due to DB2 complaining about ascii characters below 31. CSV and Excel files seems to be stripped during upload,...
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Planned for future release

Save HTML report to file system in HTML format and not MHT format

An HTML report is displayed optimally for the computer screen. Therefore you want to store the HTML report in the file system and make it available to your employees. This report will be saved as MHT file. In the company, Internet Explorer is no ...
almost 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Ability to View the User Who Checked Out the File in Task and Grid Views

In a collaborative environment, where multiple users are working on the same file, knowing who is actively working on or has "checked out" a file is crucial for effective teamwork and coordination. Here's an elaboration on why tracking this inform...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

LDAP for MC - Support authentication through sAMAccountName and for MS ActiveDirectory DC as LDAP Server

In our environment we typically login to Active Directory with our sAMAccountName. By default the LDAP.properties file has authUserIDAttribute as CN but the CN does not look like our usual username (or sAMAccountName). As of now sAMAccountName is ...
over 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 4 Future consideration

Provide alternate authentication method for system accounts (different from user authentication method)

Safer Payments v6.8 introduced full OIDC support. In this version, Safer Payments now does the "heavy lifting", communication directly with the IDP to retrieve an ID token containing the user's information. This is a great feature and works with a...
5 months ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Save to the File System in Cognos Clouds

Current onsite cognos environment allows Save to the file system which is not available in Cognos Cloud environment.
about 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Delivered