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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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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

Add Cloudera/Impala as supported datasource

My customer Ministero di Giustizia (Italian Ministry of Justice) has an internal team that does statistics and data analysis, and that works with the most disparate databases.The client uses Cloudera/Impala as a data warehouse and it would be very...
8 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

Comprehensive Rollback Solution for IBM FTM Version Upgrades

Currently, when post-upgrade issues such as performance degradation emerge after several days in production, only application components can be reverted easily—leaving clients to navigate database backup and restoration processes manually. Any bac...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 2 Under review

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

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

Restore Polish Language Support and Documentation in IBM SPSS Statistics 31

We would like to draw attention to the lack of help and documentation in Polish in the latest version of IBM SPSS Statistics 31.In version 29.0.2, Polish was available as one of the supported locales, which significantly facilitated the work of Po...
6 months ago in SPSS Statistics 0 Submitted

When we look at some message in OAC screen and exit it, we return to the home screen and not to the message itself or to the screen where the message we last viewed is

Returning from a message should allow you to stay on the same message you were viewing, that is, stay on the screen where you were (by returning, you lose track of which line you were on) , our proposal is to somehow mark the message that was view...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

Visible Owner ID of message on OAC screen

we don't have visible owner ID when viewing the message, it is important to find out to which user group it belongs to
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration