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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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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 ...
almost 3 years ago in DataStage 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

Cognos Analytics support for EBS volume encryption

Cognos Analytics deployed on AWS cloud EC2 instances. The ability to use EBS encryption for data at rest
about 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Stronger encryption for usernames and passwords in CDC metadata

Currently the usernames and passwords are not strongly encrypted in the CDC metadata or in the Access Server files. Many customers in secure environments would like stronger encryption to be used.
about 6 years ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Not under consideration

Filtering on encrypted long string fields.

Current restriction: "Do not include encrypted long string fields in the search criteria for a filter because they can return unexpected results."
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Encryption of the requests to the web server

Use some element of encryption or encoding in the backend responses so that sensitive data is not interpreted by an attacker/third party.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

Enable dynamic selection of Parameterset Valuefiles in Sequences

I want to have the possibility to dynamically choose which Valuefile of a Parameterset i use when starting a Job/Sequence inside a Sequence. Currently you can only Propagate the Valuefile choosen when starting the Calling Sequence or choose a fixe...
almost 7 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

Db2 encrypt data source connection setup

We are trying to setup DB2 encrypt data source Connection in Cognos R6 - R13 thru JDBC to support DQM . Currently Cognos r13 is not supporting and it's falling .Opened CASE to IBM and suggested to open REF for this functionality
almost 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PCI Data Compliance

one of the things that is coming out of recent PCI reviews, is that the expectation that we can’t just rely on disk encryption to satisfy the requirements, but individual data/files need to be encrypted independently. This would obviously apply to...
over 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Check 1 Not under consideration