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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    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...
    2 days 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...
    10 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

    (On behalf of PNC Bank) FTM has default podManagementPolicy of OrderedReady. The Product should support a parallel start for stateful sets.

    The default of OrderedReady forces the sequential start of a stateful set. The product should support a parallel start of all pods.
    16 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 3 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

    OFI Receiving File Transmission Cancellation Requirements

    Overview For OFI receiving files, the requested enhancement is to provide the ability to cancel created transmissions and ensure the appropriate payment state management and business recovery actions are performed. General Requirement Cancellation...
    30 days ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Canadian Payments Association (CPA) 0 Under review

    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 1 Submitted

    SAP HANA Support for IBM Optim 2.0

    SAP HANA is currently not listed among the supported data sources/targets for IBM Optim 2.0. We have a customer currently using SAP HANA and are evaluating their future adoption/upgrade to IBM Optim 2.0. We would like IBM Optim 2.0 to provide nati...
    about 1 month ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 0 Submitted

    Consistent/Dependent Masking Across Related Columns in IBM Optim Data Privacy

    IBM Optim Data Privacy currently applies masking policies independently at the column level, which can result in inconsistent data when multiple columns have a logical relationship. For example, if the source data contains: First Name: ARAVIND | L...
    about 1 month ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 0 Submitted

    Enhance the FTM-MER system to support a common user profile with system enforced six eyes control, requiring three distinct users to perform the Maker, Authoriser 1 and Authoriser 2 functions for each transactions.

    The proposed enhancement will strengthen operational and system resilience and the overall control environment by reducing dependency on fixed role assignments, while ensuring segregation of duties remain system enforced. This provides greater res...
    about 2 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / Swift 3 Functionality already exists

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