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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.

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.

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The product must encrypt all stored user passwords

When a user creates a batch job from QMF zClient, their credentials are stored in plain text (unencrypted) in the following path within a QMF Server Standalone installation: /.../Application Data/IBM/QMF Server/sdata/[userID]/user/.storage Specifi...
3 days ago in QMF for z/OS 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...
15 days 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 ...
7 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...
5 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...
5 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 ...
7 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 ...
8 months ago in webMethods BPM 0 Submitted

Ability to encrypt when downloading the Fraud Rules list

Rules (fraud rules) are considered confidential and require controls to allow them to be exported (via the download CSV export option) in a secured manor. Create a configuration option to allow rules export to be encrypted. Currently, There is a s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Safer Payments / Operational 0 Submitted

Encrypt TrustStorePassword in the odbc.ini file

We have the uid and password already encrypted ( in the way described in the doc in your link), But I was referring to the password for the truststore which is added in the odbc.ini file for SSL: TrustStore=/var/was/profiles/AppSrv01/config/cells/...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

database encryption with AES 256 GCM Mode

The customer asked if there is a plan to release a new version of the database that supports database encryption with AES 256 GCM Mode or not, and when.
8 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Warehouse 0 Submitted