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DMC - Encryption of the AES128 key at rest

In IBM Db2 DMC, For the AES128 encryption key that is used to encrypt all the keystore pwd, DB2 and Service Account credentials, there is a security finding on the Insecure storage of data encryption keys – i.e. the AES128 DEK is stored unencrypte...
5 months ago in Db2 / Data Management Console 1 Planned for future release

We will like to see some automated way to change just the IP when we failover to our disaster recovery site instead of making it a manual process on the Admin Console

We have automated the changes we do on our disaster recovery site by submitting batch jobs to alter the ALIAS for InSync once the DB2's start. Since the private Network does not change and we recover via GDPS the accelerator connects with no issue...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add Export feature to the the view created via Drill through

In order to export a view created via "drill through" process there are 2 steps are required: 1. Add to current sheet 2. Export Technically this works however it's sometimes confusing for a user who works with (or drills from) "maximized/expanded"...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

PAW Action Button Process Search Capability

When using Action button in PAW to run a process there is no existing way to search for it. We have to scroll down and select it manually. It would be really helpful if we can get a feature to search the process. I'm attaching sample screenshot fo...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Use Absolute Generation and Version Numbers for DVM GDG Dataset Validation

The Scenario : Currently for GDG Dataset Validation when creating a Virtual Table in DVM Studio, DVM uses the relative gdg name such as HIGH.LEVEL.QUALIFIER (0) ) rather than using the absolute gdg name such as HIGH.LEVEL.QUALIFIER .G0001V00 . Sec...
9 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

InfoSphere Data Replication CDC FlexRep for Snowfalke but supported JDBC driver version 3.13.15 will be out of support by 01-May-2024. Add supported version 3.15.0 (or later) as soon as possible.

Customer want to use InfoSphere Data Replication CDC FlexRep for Snowfalke. As per the below documentation, supported JDBC driver version is 3.13.15 (snowflake-jdbc-3.13.15.jar)Please refer https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSTRGZ_11.4.0/com.ibm.cdcdoc....
26 days ago in Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Planned for future release

Connectivity to Azure Resources using Service Principal approach

General Motors is investigating DataStage NextGen as part of modernization of their current DataStage jobs. As General Motors is heavily invested and focused on Azure, several application teams are leveraging Azure database solutions such as Azure...
3 months ago in Connectivity 0 Planned for future release

NEW SCALAR function for DB2 SQL – HEX2BIGINT

NEW SCALAR function for DB2 SQL – HEX2BIGINT I would like to see IBM provide a specific function for converting a HEX to BIGINT. I think this would be useful for many/most/all users of Db2! Why? The IBM LOAD utility will report that when input dat...
about 1 year ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Add Master Detail Relationship for Chart Visualizations in Cognos 11.1

Master detail relationships option found under DATA for Cognos analytics Chart visualisation is not available in Cognos 11.1 (especially 11.1 R5 version). The feature was available in Cognos 10. The feature is needed in Cognos 11.1, such that we c...
about 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Planned for future release

Db2u without OpenShift

We have a cloud-native strategy that Db2u fits better than most other RDBMSes. We also have a fairly mature Kubernetes infrastructure. We would really like to run db2u on native Kubernetes, without OpenShift.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Operating System/Virtualization 2 Planned for future release