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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).


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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...
13 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

Comprehensive Rollback Solution for IBM FTM Version Upgrades

Currently, when post-upgrade issues such as performance degradation emerge after several days in production, only application components can be reverted easily—leaving clients to navigate database backup and restoration processes manually. Any bac...
7 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 2 Under review

When we look at some message in OAC screen and exit it, we return to the home screen and not to the message itself or to the screen where the message we last viewed is

Returning from a message should allow you to stay on the same message you were viewing, that is, stay on the screen where you were (by returning, you lose track of which line you were on) , our proposal is to somehow mark the message that was view...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

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

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

Visible Owner ID of message on OAC screen

we don't have visible owner ID when viewing the message, it is important to find out to which user group it belongs to
over 2 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

FTM DB and Datasharing recommendation

Business continuity, High Availability, Scalability, and Performance lead the decision to go with a multi-instance topology, running more than one Financial Transaction Manager instance two or more logical partitions, sharing the same FTM Database...
over 6 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration

To encrypt all the data in FTM tables.

The client has identified a risk and asked us to implement encryption for all data stored in FTM (Financial Transaction Manager) tables in the FTM version 3.2.12 on z/OS
4 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Functionality already exists

Mark in FTM Base the master message that is sent to MER for printing

The problem is when users have several messages to send from FTM Base to MER for print. In the meantime they receive another message and when they return to search again, they lose track of which message they were on and it can happen that the scr...
almost 3 years ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Base 0 Not under consideration