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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).


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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.

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Optim Test Data Management

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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...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Missing pdf docs for Optim TestData Management 11.7

No pdf-documentation is actually available
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 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...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Optim TDM - Function CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 missing for LUW

Short problem description: "CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4". There is a option in Optim for z/OS reguarding conversion error. From the manual. CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 Option to enforce how the return code is set when conversion errors are detected or rows are ...
almost 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under 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.
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Oracle UROWID support

No description provided
over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Optim zOS zIIP eligibilit...

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over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Make compressed timestamp columns use TIMESTAMP datatype in the control file

After performing load service, Timestamps do not have milliseconds in Oracle target database althoughsource database timestamps have milliseconds Steps to Reproduce :Step1 : Unzip the histo.zip file provided in other to get "histo" folderStep2 : R...
about 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

OPTIM to allow the use of...

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Provide UDF functions on an EC2-hosted PostgresSQL DB

SHORT-TERM (1-2 months): Ideally, we are looking for EC2 support for PostgreSQL versions 11 and 12 . To be honest, we do not need the full set of functions. What we require ASAP is the following subset of functions: HASH Provider with sha-256 - We...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration