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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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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...
about 1 year 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

Db2 for LUW - Encryption of logfiles

For DR purposes: I can create an encrypted db backup with encrlib/encropts - and that backup can be taken to a "remote" S3 bucket - using keys,etc. So far so good. I would like to be able to do the same thing for either logarchmeth1 or logarchmeth...
3 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Needs more information

ALSM full mirror log support

Today, ALSM only extract once from primary log path. If mirror log path gets used, ALSM does not extract on mirror log path.
7 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Future consideration

Automatic Lock-Escalation from Row- to Extent-Level

Db2 is mainly using row-level locking and tries to avoid lock-escalation to table-level. This behavior is helpful in most of Db2s use cases, but there are some particular situations when locking on a higher level than row would be beneficial. Cons...
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

QMF v12 functions stopped working after Windows 11 upgrade

Client uses QMF for Workstation v12 under Windows 10 without errors. Client platform upgraded to Windows 11, now some underlying functions that worked on QMF v12 no longer works. Client needs help with determining if QMF needs patching (or version...
5 months ago in QMF for z/OS 4 Functionality already exists

Add new STATUS codes to SYSIBM.SYSTABLESPACE to reflect different states of the tablespace

This would provide the requestor who wants to do a one stop shopping when looking for a state such as Advisory Reorg of all the tablespaces in that state.
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Not under consideration

Add DB2 Support for Named Curve X25519

Client is currently using named curve X25519 for some applications connecting to DB2 which is not currently supported. There is a need to provide support for this named curve as it could create potential issues with future applications that may be...
5 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted