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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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Having more parameters in API calls

It would be beneficial to be able to pass more parameters during an API call (server/execute, for example). Currently, we can use an overrides file to modify a DBalias or the path to an XF file, for instance, in the case of a data extraction reque...
13 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Bulk configure ODBC data sources and credentials for jobs

Currently, when creating a job, the ODBC data sources and credentials in the "ODBC Data Source" field must be configured individually, which is time-consuming. We would like the ability to select multiple data sources and configure them in bulk (o...
26 days ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 1 Submitted

Requesting Java SE 9 or higher with 64 arch support for IBM Optim 11.7

We are currently using Oracle provided JRE 1.8 32 bit in all of our Optim servers in Linux/Windows. Since Oracle as made all Java/JRE need to have license which needs us to pay license cost for the same. Hence our organization adopted openjdk prov...
6 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Submitted

OPTIM/HPU INTERFACE CHANGE TO ALLOW USE OF MULTIPLE IMAGE-COPY DATASETS

This is an enhancement request for OPTIM TDM for z/OS (FMID HAEYB70). OPTIM TDM/DP currently allows users to inform only one image-copy dataset (taken in another DB2 subsystem) in the process of extracting and converting data. In our environment w...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Optim not able to see these nested tables and the parent table

The nested tables are going to be in the same realm as complex nested view where Optim currently is not robust enough to access the correct meta data for them.
7 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Specifying RTN Codes to Ignore

• current situation: • If the RTN code is not 0 in the stream job step and the general job step, the job step will be treated as Failure, and the job will also have a Status of Failure. • Improvement Request: • I want to set a return code to be ig...
8 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Submitted

IBM SPSS Solution Publisher should execute stream scripting

IBM SPSS Solution Publisher should be able to execute stream scripting that has been published — that is, when .pim and .par files are run using modelerrun.exe. It should work for both CLEM and Python (Jython). Currently, this is not the case, and...
8 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Submitted

Create SPSS Product Wide Adminstrative "Dashboard" To Monitor All Active Items Across the Server Environment

Create SPSS "Dashboard" that will monitor all running jobs within Collaborations and Deployment Services (C&DS), Modeler Server, and Statistics Server.
over 9 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Not under consideration

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Two-Factor Authentication(Two Step Authentication) function implement

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is a security process that requires two forms of identification to log in to an account or system. It's also known as two-step verification or dual-factor authentication. [How it works]You provide your password as t...
9 months ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS CNDS 0 Submitted