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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 the use of UV instead of Anaconda

UV is very quickly becoming the new industry standard for managing Python packages. It is extremely fast compared to Anaconda and in our HPC plaform this would resolve many performance-related issues in Conda package/env deployments and updates. O...
6 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Future Version 0 Submitted

Add support in Db2 to disable GSKit session cache using GSK_V2_SIDCACHE_SIZE and GSK_V3_SIDCACHE_SIZE

Db2 currently uses GSKit for cryptographic and TLS operations, and the GSKit session cache is enabled by default. While GSKit itself allows disabling the session cache by setting environment variables such as GSK_V3_SIDCACHE_SIZE=0, Db2 does not h...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 1 Under review

DB2SimpleDataSource and DB2XADataSource cannot be instantiated in modules with add-modules=java.sql only (without jdk.net.ExtendedSocketOptions 11.x => 12.x).

For security and reliability reason our infrastructure partner (MuleSoft) is adding as less java modules to the runtime as possible. While in java-module-context only those modules are accessible which are in the module-info.java of the module. In...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted

How to change Correl-ID on DB2 z/OS using DB2 Connect from Microfocus Enterprise Server?

Hello We are from Banco Santander Brasil. As a global project, we are moving some applications from z/OS mainframe environment to Microfocus Enterprise Server on Linux. Microfocus Enterprise Server product accesses DB2 z/OS through DB2 Connect v.1...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Not under consideration

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 ...
30 days ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

Support ARM64 Linux

We frequently use ARM64 Linux Docker Containers when we develop python applications on MacOS. The fact that the db2 drivers and subsequently the python packages do not support this makes our development workflow much harder.
11 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 4 Submitted

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

Make RESYNC port secured

Why is it useful?Making the DB2 resync port secure will protect it from getting hacked or allowing unsecured connections to a port that could be used to serve data from the mainframe for nefarious purposes beyond two-phase commit work. Who would b...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Planned for future release

Switch the "IBM Data Server Client" over to an MSI installer for Windows machines

Currently the installer uses an ancient InstallShield installer that is a nightmare to roll out. It would be nice if it could be transitioned over to an MSI installer because those are easier to uninstall and roll out.
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Under review

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...
2 months ago in Db2 / Db2 Connect and Drivers 0 Submitted