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Replace Open Data Manager...

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over 9 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Optim zOS: Support for IMS DB (Insert) where segments have exit routines with DB2 statements

Opitm zOS - We have IMS DBs of which some segments have exit routines that have DB2 statements - Purpose of these exit routines is to keep IMS segment data in sync with DB2 tables (when a Insert / Update / Delete happens on a record in the IMS seg...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Add support for native Aziure Databases - Cosmos

Many companies have slowly implemented a hybrid cloud architecture. I am the lead TDM engineer at GM and we have no solution for native azure db's - Cosmo
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Row limit reached "Warning" vs. "Error"

We believe its useful to show a warning notice instead of showing this as an error because basically its based on a setting that the user is specifying in the job configs prior to running the job. Its also helpful when a user might forget to remov...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Under review

OpenPages - Generate reporting periods in an automatic and scheduled way

New reporting periods are generated by user in OpenPages manually. It would be very helpful a new function to schedule the creation of reporting periods when you create them always at the same moment in the month, quarter or year.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 2 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-Key Deletes from Parent Tables

Optim Data Growth currently has a restriction in place to disallow using a multi-key delete strategy on a Parent table. If you attempt to delete more than one key at a time, Optim will issue a severe warning code and then default the key limit to ...
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

64-bit support on Linux

Please enable 64-bit processing for Optim on Linux. Our consumers are forced to use Windows servers because of the 32-bit restriction on Linux.
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Introduce a parametric filter in calculation

When you have to select Input field you can find it in a related obj or in a Preference ... but when you try to filter the related records by an enumerate filed, you can only select one or more “specific value” BUT YOU CAN NOT FILTER record where ...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review

Infosphere Optim TDM - Function CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 missing for LUW

Short problem description: "CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4". There is a option in Optim for z/OS reguarding conversion error. From the manual. CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 Option to enforce how the return code is set when conversion errors are detected or rows are ...
almost 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Prevent users from creating duplicate fields in multiple field groups within same OpenPages object type

Allowing users to create duplicate field name in multiple field groups of the same object type leads to errors in Cognos reports that use the duplicate fields, unless the Cognos reports are updated to reference the auto-renamed fields. When Report...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Implementation & Deployment 1 Under review