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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...
14 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 Submitted

Ability to add select an email recipient based on the location / folder path for notifications sent via OOTB workflow

Currently, email notifications in the OOTB Workflow can only be designed to send to users based on the User/groups and whether as ‘Assignees’ or ‘Subscribers’ in a workflow stage. It cannot be designed/configured based on the location of the objec...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

FastMap to validate dependent picklists and hidden enum values

We'd like the ability to make FastMap imports do the following two extra validations:1) check that dependent picklist values match their controlling field values2) check that enum values are not currently listed as hidden values
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Not under consideration

concerns password management policy, specifically increasing the level of their complexity

the current version of the product lacks the following two functionalities that significantly increase the level of security and complexity of passwords, namely: blocking the possibility of the same characters appearing consecutively in the passwo...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 4 Under review

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

Increased SSO Connection Monitoring

In our OpenPages instance we recently had three documented short but total outages, lasting for a few minutes each. In all of them, the Support team noticed the logs indicating SSO errors, but we made sure, in all occurrences, that we did not have...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Functionality already exists

Feature Request – Store Job Schedule Information in Repository Database

We propose that IBM Optim should provide an option to store job schedule definitions directly in the repository database, alongside other metadata. This would allow: - Automatic inclusion of schedules in repository backups. - Easier migration of s...
4 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Loss Entry Application enable association capabilities to other parent GRC objects

When entering a loss via the Loss Entry Application the user is currently unable to associate the loss to any other GRC objects outside of the business entity. The request is to enable the user the ability to see other parent GRC objects and assoc...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 1 Under review

Disable Add New Button in Grid View for specific Profiles.

Current settings "Disable Add New Global Launch Point" gives the possibility to disable Add New button for listed objects but this settings apply to all Profiles. it would be helpful if it were possible to specify, for each object, also which prof...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Future consideration