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connect to sqlserver 2025

Dear IBM Support and Product Management Team, We would like to formally submit a Request for Enhancement (RFE) for the support of Microsoft SQL Server 2025 in IBM InfoSphere Optim. Our organization is currently evaluating and planning the adoption...
16 days ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy Submitted

Add support for Oracle quoted table names containing forward slashes

IBM Optim Data Privacy currently does not support Oracle tables whose names contain forward slashes (/) and are created as quoted identifiers. These table names are commonly used by SAP ECC (for example, /BEV3/CHBPAKNA1S and /WATP/VMOBMROIA). Alth...
8 days ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 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 ...
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy Submitted

Support for Cochroach DB

As a customer potentially using the new IBM Optim Archive solution, I have many applications that whose data resides in multiple locations. I want to be able to connect to Cockroach DB with the new IBM Optim Archive to read my source data. I want ...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 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...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 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...
almost 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management Submitted

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management Submitted

PostgreSQL for Optim Directory

Customer prefers PostgreSQL
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive Submitted

Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive Submitted