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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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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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Improve the certificate chain validation step in Cognos Configuration so that it also checks 3rd-Party certs, and alerts if expiry is approaching.

We recently had production outage due to intermediate certificate expiry, while server certificate was valid. Please consider adding a feature to check expiry dates on ALL certificates in the "encryption" chain: root, intermeate(s) and server, and...
8 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Implement a relying-party backchannel logout URL to allow for Single Signout.

When integrating Cognos elements into a portal, secured against OIDC namespace, it would be helpful if we could employ token-based single-signout from our OIDC provider, rather than having to force the users to log-out manually from Cognos Analyti...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Security 1 Not under consideration

Export Dialog as Pretty Table

Export dialog as pretty table so that it can be printed, reviewed, and audited by a third party outside the tooling. For every response, create a row that record the relevant information such as: - which node do this response belong to (i.e. node ...
over 7 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Better session inactivity timeout behavior with 3rd party SSO/security software

Cognos supports 3rd party security/IAM software (similar to SiteMinder) using a Trusted Signon Provider, or via Websphere Libery container. Security software typically includes a web server/reverse proxy layer that validates every request. This is...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

RCM Feed Import to Desired Location Instead of /Library

Current RCM RegTrack Feed Import requires Feed to be imported to /Library only. If you have different name of the Library say /Main Library or /GRC_Library, it fails to get the feed by giving exceptions in the log. It makes sense to provide config...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 2 Not under consideration

Compatibility with SAP S/4 HANA 2021

Our company is upgrading from SAP ECC to SAP S/4 2021. We use datastage to retrieve data from SAP via SAP PACK for application 8.2.0.1. Our existing jobs continue to work with S/4 2021. On the other hand, it is not possible to generate a new ABAP ...
over 3 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Request for an enhancement to include a Jira connector in future releases of Cognos Analytics.

We propose the addition of a Jira connector in future versions of Cognos Analytics. This feature would allow users to directly connect Jira as a data source within Cognos, simplifying the analysis and reporting of critical project data such as tic...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 1 Not under consideration

Questionnaires - use on cell phones and mobile devices

In our company we are carrying out inspections of third parties and vendors outdoor, based upon checklist - in an inspection app (currently not OpenPages) on our cell phones. With the implementation of OpenPages we would like to do the same outdoo...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Not under consideration

Add Readonly Database Connection Support

It would be beneficial to have a readonly connection when accessing the database from third party software. Many products provide the ability to connect via JDBC but they also have the ability to make changes. Example LibreOffice Base can be setup...
over 2 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

Maintain portal characteristics for embedded report when drilling through

When you embed a report in a third party portal it is expected the experience will remain the same. Drilling through should not expose the appbar and navbar nor should it show any other Cognos portal objects.
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration