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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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Require EGO RestAPI to close host via automation

As we discussed earlier on our call, we are searching for a method to provide some automation for our Spectrum environments. Ideally, this type of action would be supported by an API level interface, but the available commands for host management ...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 2 Submitted

Optim support cockroach databases

Optim support cockroach databases
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Parameterize memory limit for service plc

Currently the only way to update memory limit for plc service is to edit Xmx value in script $PERF_TOP/4.0/etc/plc.sh. It would make it much easier to make that value a parameter which could be changed either under plc.conf or as an environment va...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

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

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

Agnostic/Generic Instance Groups and Resource Scheduler

We are in need of agnostic/generic instance groups and an   agnostic/genericresource scheduler.*) agnostic/genericresource schedulerThere is a common need for our data scientists to schedule a "pure" non-Spark TensorFlow Python...
over 5 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.4.1 0 Future consideration

Port config issue on deployment

We have been facing issues with pods during restart of services and found this is related to a bug gap in the REST API used for deploying new pods and the port range assigned. Please reference case TS012155811 for more details.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Under review

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

Add Spark3.5.1 with Java 11 support enabled

There are a lot of improvements noted in Spark version 3.5.1 when compared to 3.3.1. Immediate driver for this version of Spark is the support for a defensive mechanism against SQL injections. There are other beneficial features: Spark connect, En...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 3 Submitted

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