Skip to Main Content
IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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


ADD A NEW IDEA

Optim Test Data Management

Showing 80

Send Test Email Issue

When trying to test the email functionality in TDM by clicking on the "Send Test Email" button, We don't get an error and it says that the test email was sent but we don't get any emails. According to IBM support there is no way to trace the "Send...
4 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

No need to restart the OPTIM service for the server settings changes to take effect

Currently and according to IBM documentation " Note: If you make changes to the configuration of a Server while it is running, click Apply , then stop and start the Server to effect the changes." As we're having more customers using TDM we are try...
5 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Automation of Optim LOAD generator

Currently, we are using the Optim LOAD panel to generate load based on Optim extract files, to create samples of the database. Each time, we have to browse a sequence of panels to generate the different load jobs . The final output is a JCL that p...
5 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
6 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Postgres TEXT data type to VARCHAR at Optim level

Optim version = V11.7.0.1 DB alias = PostgreSQL 11.8 Optim is extracting TEXT data type from postgres database as a LOB data, so unable to proceed with the masking on LOB columns. But even if we defined as TEXT data type at database level, the dat...
8 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 4 Planned for future release

Please test with and validate Windows 2022 for Optim TDM V11.7

We currently have Optim TDM V11.3 running on Windows 2016. I am working to plan a new server build where we would install Optim V11.7 on a NEW Windows server. I see from documentation that I can find that ONLY Windows 2019 is listed (unless I am l...
12 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

rowchangetimestampoverride as a load parameter

Our customer needs TIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP NOT NULL columns to be copied to the test environment. Actually these columns and values disappear during convert for load.
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 3 Not under consideration

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...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Optim zOS: Support for IMS DB (Insert) where segments have exit routines with DB2 statements

Opitm zOS - We have IMS DBs of which some segments have exit routines that have DB2 statements - Purpose of these exit routines is to keep IMS segment data in sync with DB2 tables (when a Insert / Update / Delete happens on a record in the IMS seg...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Add support for native Aziure Databases - Cosmos

Many companies have slowly implemented a hybrid cloud architecture. I am the lead TDM engineer at GM and we have no solution for native azure db's - Cosmo
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration