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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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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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Option to suppress/disable diagnostic sections in the SHOW STEPS report for IBM Optim z/OS

Problem Statement: In IBM Optim v11.7, the SHOW STEPS report automatically displays additional diagnostic sections-specially Untraversed Table(s), Unselected Relationship(s), and Unknown Relationship(s).  This functionality introduces unwante...
about 9 hours ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Enable recursive relationship processing for single table

IBM InfoSphere Optim should support recursive relationships when an Access Definition contains a single table. Currently, the Access Definition and Steps utility recognize the recursive relationship and display the expected processing steps, inclu...
9 days ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 0 Submitted

InfoSphere DataStage Job Management REST API

This idea promotes and suggests the creation of a REST API for the Import and Export of InfoSphere DataStage jobs in several formats, including the XML format obtained from exporting a job via DataStage Designer or by using the dsexport client com...
14 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Enhancement Request – Support Modern Enterprise Authentication Methods (Idira/CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, and Other Modern Authentication Mechanisms) in IBM DataStage On-Premises

IBM Support Team, Based on UPS Information Security standards we submitting an enhancement request for the IBM DataStage On-Premises platform to better align with modern enterprise security standards and credential management requirements. Busines...
19 days ago in DataStage 0 Submitted

Add SQL pushdown support for DB2 for z/OS connector in DataStage NextGen

Flows using the db2zos connector compile and run purely as px-runtime OSH with no pushdown. ELT mode does not support db2zos, so no predicate or transformation is pushed into DB2 for z/OS. All data is extracted to the parallel engine before any fi...
4 months ago in DataStage 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 0 Submitted

Equivalent Parallel Transform routine

We are converting server jobs to parallel jobs through the MettleCI tool. The tool works well on simple jobs, but we find that not all server jobs can be translated to parallel jobs. For example, we have an original job that exploits the UtilityRu...
about 2 years ago in DataStage 2 Not under consideration

CSV and Excel compatible export and intelligent analysis function for Db2zAI

Db2zAI DCC provide training recommendations for distributed connection and thread control. However, we have to manually copy these numbers in to an excel so we can compare, review, analyze, approve and track the activities. The manual process is t...
4 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

Validation of DB2 pre-requisites for DB2 AI for z/OS maintenance

When a DB2 AI for z/OS APAR requires APAR from DB2/zOS as pre-requisites, it is desirable to include in the DB2zAI hold data a job to verify if the DB2/zOS pre-requisites have been installed. Otherwise the DB2zAI software upgrade could be complete...
10 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted