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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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Adding a search box for IMS Definitions when creating Virtual Tables

Currently, when creating IMS Virtual Tables, users must select a DBD and PSB from a dropdown list. However, since these follow a naming convention, finding the correct DBD or PSB can be time-consuming and inefficient. To improve usability, I propo...
10 months ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enhancement to enable configurable limits on LIM message queue

The IBM Spectrum Symphony product currently sets a default LIM message queue limit of 10,000. Under high workload demands with aggressive scale-in/out requirements, this limit is sometimes exceeded, leading to missed requests and performance degra...
about 2 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 1 Under review

Oracle stored procedure support with DRDA-passthrough

We need to have support for Oracle Stored procedure and sequence using DRDA-passthrough. At the moment we have programs running on z/Os that are using Oracle client that is out of support and will no longer be working with the latest Oracle releas...
over 2 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Use certified hashing function bcrypt/Argon2 in users.xml

Symphony 7.3.2 uses AES-128 encryption for the passwords storage in the local users.xml file, which is not compliant with Citi Cryptography Standard. Only below hashing algorithms are approved for passwords hashing. Citi requests IBM to use bcrypt...
5 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0 Future consideration

Support Silent Switch Installations for DVM Studio, JDBC Drivers and ODBC Drivers

At our site users do not have the option to download and install software on their work computers unless that software has been approved and made available from an internal central software download site. Users do not have administrative rights an...
over 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 2 Future consideration

Enable DVM Access through Visual Studio Code

The Scenario: Currently we use Visual Studio Code for all development activities. Visual Studio Code acts as a single workstation. It is rich in libraries and plugins for distributed environments and Cloud environments. By using the ZOWE plug in, ...
about 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Not under consideration

Enhance Jgate to support Active Directory ID authentication

The Problem: We have enterprise wide roll out of active directory authentication and Currently Jgate does not support it. Proposed solutions: Enhance Jgate to support Active Directory ID authentication The Benefits/Value: We will have all the bene...
almost 3 years ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 1 Future consideration

Enable Global Capacity Limits in HostFactory with Configurable Requestor-Level Control

Background: The CVA environment comprises of two application types: Under /cva parent Consumer – must run exclusively on on-demand instances. Under /cvaSpot parent Consumer – can run workload on both on-demand and spot instances. To support this a...
3 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 0

Allow the configuration of multiple users to access JDBC Gateway administrative console

As stated https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7124613 currently there is no option available to configure multiple users to access the JDBC Gateway administrative console.Only a single user (web client) can access the JDBC Gateway administrativ...
over 1 year ago in Data Virtualization Manager for z/OS 0 Future consideration

We need to know if the session/task is from SMC

We are working to use SMC (Symphony MultiCluster). Since there is no database schema change, we can't tell if the session/task is from SMC. We created TS019242798 and know there is global id in PERF soamdb temp file (session_history/task_attribute...
7 months ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3.2 2 Not under consideration