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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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No need to restart the OPTIM service for the server settings changes to take effect

Currently and according to IBM documentation " Note: If you make changes to the configuration of a Server while it is running, click Apply , then stop and start the Server to effect the changes." As we're having more customers using TDM we are try...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

TDF should support SSL/TLS LDAP. (Also known as LDAPS.)

Case: TS014229415 Opened September 2023. Closed as a future requirement (working as designed).
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Future consideration

Farm out GPU process with Pythonwrapper

We would like to farm out GPU process with PythonWrapper
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Future consideration

Automation of Optim LOAD generator

Currently, we are using the Optim LOAD panel to generate load based on Optim extract files, to create samples of the database. Each time, we have to browse a sequence of panels to generate the different load jobs . The final output is a JCL that p...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Self-signed certificate or no certificate for compute nodes

This is for Sym 7.3.1 or later versions. We need to have TLS enabled for all the communications in order to run Symphony in AWS securely. All the management nodes and masters will have a proper signed certificate. Communications to mgmt nodes and ...
about 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 1 Functionality already exists

Browse archived DDL

Extend browse archive file utility to browse archived DDL (tables, indexes, views, stored procedures).
almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

enhancement of behavior of common data download in hybrid environment

With current design, when SIM fails to download common data due to network error or any other problem, SIM will hang there and does not sense the error at all. This error is quick common in hybrid environment these days. For example, we've grids o...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Not under consideration

Optim Db2 LUW - LOAD support in IXF format when there are XML data type fields in the table.

Optim does not support to perform a LOAD process using IXF format when there are XML data type fields in the table. Note that IXF is a more robust/compact format to exchange data between Db2 databases. See cases: TS003467645 and TS003290043 (two d...
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

egosh service list not get service output

This happened between our egosh "client" on on-prem workstation and the cluster on AWS. On-prem in our workstation we've setup a "egosh client" which basically is a collection of binaries and dependency of egosh.exe for the purpose of administrati...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Symphony / Version 7.3 0 Future consideration

Support NetApp StorageGrid

Company is migrating object storage from EMC ECS to NetApp StorageGrid.
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Not under consideration