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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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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.

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Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

If QWT and SQL Tuning Services could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/OS. This would benefit remotely pipelines that want to use protect...
9 months ago in Db2 Query Workload Tuner for z/OS 0 Under review

Accept and generate RACF Identity Tokens for authentication

If Db2 Admin Foundation could generate RACF Identity Tokens (IDT), then the generated token could be used with other z/OS components that support RACF IDTs such as Db2 for z/OS. This would benefit remotely pipelines that want to use protected user...
9 months ago in Db2 Administration Foundation for z/OS 0 Submitted

Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) for Data Studio

Trying to implement Vanguard tokenless two factor authentication on IBM mainframe. When the userid and password are entered; Vanguard sends a RACF passticket via email or text message. The 8 byte passticket is entered in the 'New Password' field t...
almost 8 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Delivered

IDAA Insync Client certificate authentication support

We use a functional ID for IDAA replication - integrated synchronization. We need a compliant method for the functional ID authentication that is manageable. Currently, for IDAA replication in-sync process, We are using a functional ID with fixed ...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Analytics Accelerator for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow for use of RACF passtickets when connecting to Db2 zOS

The current DSM documentation states to use a non-expiring RACF id for the DSM repository connection to z/OS and the connection profile "Data collection" credentials. Non expiring RACF ids are not allowed by our Security and Controls team. This pr...
over 6 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Delivered

Enhance DB2 so that if a racinit fails for a passticket only UserID we see the ICH408I

Please enhance the SAF calls for DB2 for PROTECTED UserIDs that have passticket to omit the ICH408I message if the RACINIT fails
almost 7 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Ability for DVM subsystem started task ID use an alternative ID when connecting to other systems (DB2, IMS, JGate,etc.)

The ID that we use to run DVM is not able to connect to other systems (DB2, IMS, JGate,etc.) via password, passticket, etc. During startup, DVM attempts to connect to these systems in order to collect metadata. These connections fail, which causes...
about 6 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Delivered