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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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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Change communication from DS client to SERVER

See TS002849280. The problem in this case is that encrypted values are sent to the client. Since the client also has the key to decrypt those values, the client basically receives in plaintext the passwords that are set to connect to those datab...
almost 6 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

Unencrypted php file for RTM

Customer want to modify something in RTM web page. To do that we need .php file for specified RTM web page.But now, all php file is encrypted so we can modify them. According to IBM support, in the past, they can get unencrypted file from RTM inst...
almost 6 years ago in Spectrum LSF 1 Delivered

Extract Data signon UserName from Data source connections

We want to get the user id that Cognos uses to connect to the reporting Database. I am able to get the credentials from the data source sign on (doing a search on dataSourceSignon) However it is in encrypted form. This is important for management ...
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Security hole:Unsecure encrypted storage

System: Product systemdescription:Many web applications do not use appropriate encryption measures or Hash algorithms to protect sensitive data, such as credit cards, social security numbers (SSN), identity certificates, and so on. Attackers may u...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Delivered

Security hole:Identity authentication management

System:productiondescription: Unauthorized access to pages that authorized users can access, or authorized user operationsaction:According to the specific loopholes, the reinforcement suggestions are put forward. Such as: authentication code mecha...
about 6 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.3 0 Delivered

IIS DataStage needs encryption key rotation

The latest version of IIS DataStage 11.7.1 has no documented ability to be able to change any keys used to encrypt password type data in the product. Security best practices are to periodically rotate the keys.
about 6 years ago in DataStage 3 Not under consideration

Create utility to generate encrypted password in the same manner as AVZDRATH

Currently, AVZDRATH has the ability to take in an encrypted password as input, however there are no other utilities available to generate the encrypted password outside of AVZDRATH. Since our DVM support team will be responsible for managing the g...
over 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Teradata Connector Enable Data Encryption

There are situations were the data connection between Datastage and Teradata need to be encrypted to transfer sensitive information. Currently the option exists in ODBC, but not in the Teradata Connector.
over 6 years ago in Connectivity 0 Not under consideration

6039112 - FTMV30012 - Deployment Utility Token File Encryption

Specifically, we are asking for the Deployment Configuration Utility to have the ability to reference an external properties file in the same manner as the FTM Properties files work today with the "newConfigurationFile" parameter. The DCU should s...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 0 Is a defect

Hardcoded Encryption Key in OpenPages

Hardcoded Encryption Key is being used in OpenPages. As checked with IBM support team, here is the information: "For LDAP authentication, the aurora_auth.config is configured and it stores the LDAP "security.search.user.credentials". The password ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Delivered