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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Use certified hashing function bcrypt/Argon2 in users.xml

Symphony 7.3.2 uses AES-128 encryption for the passwords storage in the local users.xml file, which is not compliant with Citi Cryptography Standard. Only below hashing algorithms are approved for passwords hashing. Citi requests IBM to use bcrypt...
5 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

DEBUG Level logging support across all Cloud Pak for Data services

At this time we have not standardized the implementation of DEBUG level logging for all CP4D services. Some services support enabling DEBUG level logging but that needs to be done manually through the deployment, ie. "oc edit deployment <deploy...
17 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 2 Future consideration

Reread SSL Keystore while Informix is running

To renewing the SSL Keystore Files it is neccesary to restart the whole DB Engine / Connection Manager, when the keystore Files have been changed. A "reread keystore" Function would be very helpfull, and would save a lot of Time and reduce downtim...
19 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

OpenPages Scheduler - allow client to set max concurrent jobs and display any that are queued.

Currently the system has a hard wired limit of 5 concurrently executing schedule jobs. You can start a sixth one but the system actually queues it to start when one of the others completes. However, the system does not provide any display to show ...
21 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Future consideration

Oauth authentication for email notification

In September 2025, Microsoft will deprecate SMTP with login/password and will only allow SMTP with OAuth. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchange/exchange-online-to-retire-basic-auth-for-client-submission-smtp-auth/4114750. Currently ena...
25 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Future consideration

Add DSNL523I or DSNL519I for all available PORTs

Currently at DB2 startup, or when DDF is started, a DSNL523I or DSNL519I message is issued for the main DB2 PORT, the main SECPORT, and RESORT. I would like the same to be done for all available LOCATION ALIAS PORTs so our automation can validate ...
26 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow workflow instances to allow filtering prior to loading the instances

The workflow instances page can take ages to load when your system has a lot of workflows running. It would be great if you could filter upfront prior to the instances being loaded. This would greatly improve the productivity of administrators rat...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Future consideration

Add SCOPE(GROUP) for -DIS STATS(INDEXTRAVERSECOUNT)

Our shop has 13 LPARs for our Production environment & while trying to figure out the best way to combined all the different FTB FACTOR values for the individual IXs it was mentioned maybe a future feature of something along the lines of -DIS ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Performance Improvement Metrics of a SQL.

When we improve performance of a SQL by creating an index we generally try to capture and compare Time, CPU & Getpages of the sql before and after the SQL tuning is completed.If there is a way Query Tuning can help us capture using HASH TOKEN ...
about 1 month ago in Db2 Query Monitor for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Enable WatsonX Code Assistant (WCA) to support MCP servers

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an emerging open standard that enables AI assistants to retrieve structured, contextual information from external sources—such as CMSs, bug trackers (e.g., Jira, Confluence), database schemas, UI design tools (e.g.,...
about 1 month ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant (general) 4 Future consideration