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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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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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FIPS 140-2 Level 2 encryption key

Currently, Planning Analytics on Cloud supports FIPS 140-2 Level 1. The minimum security requirement is FIPS 140-2 Level 2.
1 day ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
28 days ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

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....
13 days ago in Analytics Engine 0 Submitted

Enhancement of BiqQuery connector stage - Credential field to be modified to hold JSON data in encrypted format

We are currently running applications hosted on Information Server 11.7.1.4 version. We have a critical requirment to connect Google Cloud through a datastage job. We have considered BiqQuery connector stage as a suitable one for fulfillment. Curr...
about 1 month ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Will like to see default change for enableSysplexWLB from false to true since this property is mostly applicable to Db2 z/OS

We have lots and lots on JDBC connections to our Db2 z/OS servers. We also have a very large number of Db2 z/OS subsystems. About 98 % of those are Data Sharing. We are seeing large concentration of connections on only one particular member of the...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

Support for Kafka "Client-Side Field Level Encryption" in Apply for Kafka

Confluent had released Client-Side Field Level Encryption to their on-prem offering as early access similar to the support they had for Confluent Cloud. We like to make use of this feature to secure our sensitive data. Can IBM add this support in ...
8 months ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Submitted

Utility for decrypting op-storage files

With cloudpak version of Openpages the op-storage files are encrypted by default and mandatory. Although we do have the REST APIs available to decrypt and encrypt these files, alternatively can we have a standalone utility or an SDK API which we c...
6 months ago in watsonx.governance 0 Submitted

SSH Server CBC Mode Ciphers Enabled on InfraDC SSH port 8022.

Security scan has identified SSH Server CBC Mode Ciphers Enabled on InfraDC SSH port 8022. We tried disabling CBC ciphers from java.security config file however it does not work. Below are vulnerabilities which have been identified. Supports follo...
6 months ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

Universal Watson Discovery

Universal Watson Discovery could be a powerful AI-driven knowledge and financial intelligence system, integrating IBM Watson Discovery's NLP, AI search, and document analysis with your broader Open Wealth Autonomous Nexus (OWAN), Nano Inheritance ...
8 months ago in Watson Discovery 2 Submitted

Need to Encrypt credentials within the application itself before transmitting them over the network in BPM UI

We are able to see the credentials in Plain text. We are not using any testing tool to capture the packet. we are just inspecting the packet in browser in debugger mode and able to see the password in the browser in plain text. Please encrypt the ...
9 months ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted