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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Enable multi threading for the ODM ODBC Driver for Linux

Enable multi threading for the ODM ODBC Driver for Linux so Linux clients can run multiple queries in parallel
about 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Support Google Cloud Storage

Support Google Cloud Storage on archive requests to store archive files.
about 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Support Dell/EMC ECS as a primary archive file path

Support Dell/EMC ECS as a primary archive file path so archive files can be created directly on object storage devices.
about 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Optim support for the NUMBER data type on Teradata

From RFE: "Archive tables with columns using the NUMBER data type on Teradata databases." From Offering Management: Prior to implementing this idea, Optim does not allow archiving of a Teradata table that contains a column of the NUMBER data type....
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive / Optim Data Privacy / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Request for Windows 2016 ...

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over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Temporal Tables by default in vNext Db2 Optim Directory

We want to set up an automated purge of Optim Archives but would like to preserve the metadata about each archive so we can do time travel queries to track the lifecycle of our archives. This might, could or should be a requirement for records man...
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Not under consideration

IBM OPTIM support for EMC...

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about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Ability to archive CSV fi...

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over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Ability to archive MS Acc...

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over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Ability to archive Lotus ...

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over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration