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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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Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Support cataloging Hive data in IBM Analytics Engine

Hive is a popular interface for querying data in the WDP. It is desirable that this data can be catalogued.
over 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 7 Not under consideration

Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Error/success messages with PAW action buttons

When we use the current PAW action buttons to launch the processes, the error or success messages that appear are not user-friendly for a simple user.
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Setting active sandbox

The users of our application create several sandboxes for different scenarios. We have a module which allows these users to load either in a common base or in a sandbox. But since the list can be long, we want the loading to be done on the active ...
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Missing pdf docs for Optim TestData Management 11.7

No pdf-documentation is actually available
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Optim TDM 11.7 for DB2 on z/OS - Overrides for both, SRCCID and DESTCID in Table Maps

Hello IBM, We use Optim TDM extensively for setting up Test Data by extracting from Live and inserting into different UAT environments. Instead of generating the jobs each time a request comes, we have a set of batch jobs that are run when a reque...
about 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Views display varies per user

We have noticed that some cube views (precisely those that use the }Clients dimension) vary on the display depending on the user. This is because Column sizes are associated with MUNs not position. So we find ourselves with a different refinement ...
almost 6 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Extend policy and rule enforcement to Analytics Engine

Analytics Engine components such as Hive are an important part of the Data Lake story. Without Hive, external users are unable to query data in IBM Cloud Object Storage. However, Analytics Engine is not integrated with Watson Knowledge Catalog. Th...
over 7 years ago in Analytics Engine 0 Not under consideration

Data connector for CDH 7.x

Actually there is no Cloudera CDH 7x compatible connector. An improvement would be to be able to benefit from a datasource connector on Hive, HDFS and Impala services. We could use Optim DP and TDM either to read data from Hadoop, or to build data...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted