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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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Support for Multi-Factor Authentication

Using a multi-factor authentication account (RSA token) when creating and configuring a shared repository and relational data source causes the user account to lock due to too many attempts using invalid credentials. Please implement support for M...
5 months ago in QMF for z/OS 2 Under review

Spark binaries and configuration files in Spark deployment directory should reside in read-only file system

Currently during provisioning of Spark instance groups we have to specify a deployment directory on NFS which does not exist prior to IG creation. Due to security concerns and software best practices we would like Spark Instance group creation to ...
about 1 month ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

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...
2 months ago in QMF for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

Allow option for or default option to turn "autocomplete" flag to off for password authentication in regards to the Jupyter notebooks

It is a low priority security vulnerability for web servers to allow password auto-completion. In most apps, this is a pretty simple fix, to configure the option to allow "autocomplete" to set to off. When I opened a ticket with IBM, their was not...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Support macOS and Linux on QMF for Workstation 12

QMF for Workstation v12 and above only runs on Windows OS. Provide support for running QMF for Workstation v12 on macOS and Linux platforms as well. This allows full functionality to be provided to users on these platforms.
almost 6 years ago in QMF for z/OS 12 Not under consideration

QMF for Websphere – admin should set preferences for its users

QMF gives the possibility to set preferences and they are stored in the session data for each user and for each different browser in the application data in the machine where QMF was installed. Administrators should set preferences for all the use...
12 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

QMF read only mode

QMF client has an "edit table" mode which issues unnecessary update statements even when a simple select is done. From a security stand point, this is a problem as when the DB2 database is audited, it looks users are doing UPDATES even if they jus...
10 months ago in QMF for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Wells Fargo want to have Elastic Filebeat & Logstash applications updated to v8.13 or higher for the embedded products lifecycle management

Reducing risk of vulnerabilities or insure ability to support.
6 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Terminating Client mode Spark cluster from IBM Spectrum Conductor

IBM Spectrum Conductor supports Spark clusters in both, "cluster" and "client", modes. The "cluster" mode spark-cluster contains a dedicated spark-driver that IBM Spectrum Conductor manages. Hence, when such spark-cluster creates any issue with th...
6 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Certifying Spectrum Conductor Platform for miniforge.

Miniforge is a relatively new conda installer that is managed by conda-forge community (https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge). Our organization has decided to move away from Anacodna and Miniconda and use exclusively miniforge to manage our co...
7 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted