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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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Password encryption on QMF Server and Data Virtualization Manager and the JDBC driver.

Royal Bank of Canada and likely other customers have the following need. With DVM and the QMF Server and the JDBC Gateway the credential management system of Globals and the AVZDRATH job will be a security\auditing issue. 1) If the users are mappe...
over 4 years ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Create a build of IDR CDC with a newer JVM to support AES192

PMR: TS001205284. Bancolombia requires that Oracle connections be encrypted with AES192. In order to allow CDC Agent to connect to Oracle, Advanced Setting should be selected and extra connection string parameters should be configured to allow AES...
about 7 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Encryption for DataStage repository

Our Secuity department mandate us to encrypt all databases including the DataStage XMETA repository. When we do encrypt the DB2 database XMETA with the "DATA_ENCRYPT" option on the DB2 configuration, the WebSphere is not able to connect and I am n...
about 7 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration

Provide support in Db2 native encryption for KMIP 1.2 or higher

DB2 native encryption currently supports KMIP 1.1 where the master key flows (in a secure communication channel) from the centralized keystore to Db2 in order to decrypt the data encryption key. Later versions of KMIP support an alternate approach...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Please provide -authfile option for installing an Information Infosphere Server update package with encrypted password

Currently installUpdates requires wasadmin/isadmin password to be entered for installing an Information Infosphere Server update package (fix pack, patch, or update). Please provide authfile option with installUpdates so that wasadmin/isadmin encr...
almost 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Allow unencrypted password in an SSL conversation

This is a request to align the behavior of DB2 LUW with that of IBM i and DB2 for z/OS when connecting with a DRDA client. With the other 2 platforms, if DRDA is configured to require user/password to be sent encrypted with minimum encryption leve...
over 7 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

During the assessment it was observed that there was Cleartext transmission of sensitive information like username and password in the application.

FixIt is recommended to configure servers to use encrypted channels for communication by implementing TLS.It is also recommended to encrypt the passwords , It is recommended to not send any sensitive information in plain text. It should be either ...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Master key rotation in HADR is not in transactional sequence even in SYNC mode

IN Encryption at rest - HADR scenario, master key rotation on primary is not getting shipped to standby immediately (relatively) in SYNC mode. Seems it needs explicit ARCHIVE LOG command to rotation key on standby.
almost 8 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Enhance User ID and Password encryption algorithm

Please advise to enhance encryption algorithm on User ID and Passowrd to AES 128 bit or higher during authentication and store in system.
over 8 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Generate Encrypted Password During Silent Install of Web Tier/Gateway

For Linux, to install only the gateway on our webserver, we need to use a silent connect and install (cannot use GUI and will automate installation later). For a gateway only install, the installvariables.properties state that the encrypted passwo...
almost 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration