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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.

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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Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

Enable TDM to create a trusted connection and user switching

In a Db2 environment with very strict security and RCAC enabled to secure data on the row level, it is needed to know the actual userid that is driving the request. Application servers usually connect using a system account and this is also common...
10 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Request Optim to support Java 11 as Java 8 is no longer supported.

Currently Optim only allows for Java 8 which is no longer allowed to be used at the client site.
almost 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Future consideration

Default RStudio environment definition should be increased to 2 vCPU and 4 GB RAM.

As Data Scientist we are working a lot with RStudio. The default RStudio environment definition (1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM) is too small for RStudio. The limit of 1 GB is quickly reached and the pod is then restarted. And you do not understand what happ...
about 4 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration

Optim support cockroach databases

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

Evolve Data Refinement to more advanced capabilities

To make Data Refinement more attractive to Data Scientists, more advanced capabilities should be available, like some of the features available in AutoAI today, but still with the opportunity to build models manually. Like Train/Test Split, Encodi...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 3 Functionality already exists

Graphical representation of various stages in Data Refinery

There should be a way to graphically represent of various stages in Data Refinery for better user experience. Currently the different stages in Data refinery is not very clear.
almost 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 2 Functionality already exists

Add possibility for disabeling Data Refinery

Resources are always an issue in Cloud Pak for Data, especially in small environments with only 48 cores. In installations that support “native” Data Science use cases (that is customers, just using Jupyter notebooks in WSL, doing their stuff in P...
almost 5 years ago in Watson Studio / Watson Studio 1 Not under consideration