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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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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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Support KMS keys on Google Cloud Storage.

DataStage jobs that write to a GCS bucket, using the GCS connector, get error that includes " is encrypted with a Cloud KMS key, which is not supported."
almost 5 years ago in Connectivity 2 Not under consideration

Will Cognos support 4096 bit encryption strenth in future versions ?

Cognos currently accommodates 2098 encryption key strength. Will Cognos release a version within the next 15 months that can accommodate a strength of 4096?
over 10 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

OPTIM ODM should support secure ciphers

As documented in: IBM® Optim Connect Optim Connect Server User Guide and Reference Version 5.3.3 Daemon Security Tab - Encryption methods: "Indicates the encryption method used to send information across the network. The default is an asterisk (*)...
about 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Use encryption of user and password for client/server communication as default

Default value of the dbm cfg AUTHENTICATION parameter is SERVER. Also the jdbc/jcc driver does not encrypt the user and password values in a connection by default. Two solution options:1. change default value for dbm cfg authentication from SERVER...
over 10 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

New DB2 LUW Authentication Option

We would like a compatibility mode for SERVER_ENCRYPT authentication. It would provide a grace period for client connections before encryption is enforced via SERVER_ENCRYPT. Essentially, it would allow DB2 Clients to connect with either clear tex...
almost 11 years ago in Db2 0 Not under consideration

Making FileNet suite of products (CPE, IER, ICN, CSS, and ICC) Azure RMS-aware

The company is moving to content encryption, using MS Azure, for all unstructured data within the company. There, the FileNet suite of products needs to be able to be RMS-aware to handle this encryption by working with the Azure security API durin...
over 5 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Column level encryption, an option to cleanup passwords on certain/all rows for DBSO or Informix

All users which are granted permissions for insert/modify data into tables are also allowed to use their own password for column level data encryption. But not all user are their whole lifetime in the company and move. What happened with their dat...
almost 6 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration

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

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

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