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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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).


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



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Optim Hybrid Cloud

Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
over 1 year ago in Optim Hybrid Cloud Future consideration

Enable MariaDB as a Supported Source for Optim Next Generation Archival Tool

Background MariaDB is a widely adopted open-source relational database that our organization currently uses across multiple application development environments. As we advance our data archival strategy, it is essential that our tooling aligns wit...
2 days ago in Optim Hybrid Cloud Future consideration

event-based data retention

many customers have a requirement for retaining archived data based on data-related values or events. The idea of data retention at the Archive File level is unacceptable--retention needs to be much more granular, even at the row level...not unlik...
about 1 month ago in Optim Hybrid Cloud Future consideration

Implementation of SAP connectors

This is useful because the client needs to archive data from SAP ERP systems; such as SAP HANA and SAP BW. Being these relational databases, we need Optim Archive to support the archiving of these systems by an ODBC connector, which would support ...
about 1 month ago in Optim Hybrid Cloud Under review