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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Provide kafka password encryption in kafkaproducer.properties

Plan text password no longer acceptable in enterprise environment. It is flag to have vulnerability and not compliance with audit requirement.
2 days ago in Data Replication: Change Data Capture 0 Under review

Improve SMF data for Inbound ACI

Currently DVM Inbound ACI calls produce SMF details that show the CICS region where the call is being processed. We need to know the CICS transaction name in order to assign usage by specific application area.
5 days ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Under review

For Db2 z/OS, we need to have a way to find only the committed data present in tables for which we have set AFTER triggers in Db2 and also to have a unit of work ID to identify the commit scope for multiple changes that an occur as part of a single commit. This will enable us to have an efficient mechanism for integration with other applications and software such as IBM zDIH.

It will enable to modernise our heritage applications and enable to expose our data with modern interface quickly.
6 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Provide unified UI for configuring and running CP4D backup/restore

The current process for the backup/restore of CP4D is complex and requires a number of steps that are needed for setting up the backup/restore. Any of these steps can go wrong. Just for the initial setup, it took multiple working sessions between ...
8 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Provide patch for bypassing SD for recursive workload. This is available in 7.3.2

We have recursive workload apps which creates thousands of sessions to another app which causes SD to become unresponsive and reject connection requests. This patch will help resolve this issue. This is available on 7.3.2 as per Directly connectin...
8 days ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Under review

Add a Custom URL to the Home Page

Allow the customer to add a custom URL to the Home Page under Support.
16 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Make DBET selectable

It would be useful in many different situations if the DBET could be read via SQL, similar to some tables in the Db2 directory.
16 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 0 Under review

Db2 for IBM i Support in IBM Product Master (Partner Feedback)

We have received strong feedback from one of our business partners requesting that IBM Product Master officially support Db2 for IBM i . This partner has a proven track record of widely proposing and delivering IBM Product Master to customers. To ...
21 days ago in Product Master 0 Under review

Enhance CPDCTL Folder Export to include Dependencies in different folders.

Currently we have about 20-30 ETL processes in a project and if any one of the processes changed we do not want to do an export/import of the entire project. Exporting pipelines with Dependencies is a manual and cumbersome processes. We need to us...
21 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Cloud Pak for Data Platform 0 Under review

Reorg index should update Real Time Statistics table SYSINDEXSPACESTATS

In case opened to IBM support, I found out that RTS table SYSINDEXSPACESTATS is not updated after reorg index. We have automated reorg of tablespaces and indexes through IBM DB2 Automation Tool using conditions for reorganization from RTS tables S...
22 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review