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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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We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Conductor 2.5.1 to address CVE-2024-38819 and CVE-38816 vulnerability

This helps remediate vulnerability explained in CVE-2024-38819 and CVE-38816. We need spring framework updated to latest version for Spectrum Conductor 2.5.1 to address CVE-2024-38819 and CVE-38816 vulnerability. IBM case #TS018516144 has been ope...
10 months ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 0 Submitted

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

"Pure Python/Non-Spark enabled" SIGs support for Python 3.10 and 3.11 Support for IBM Spectrum Conductor 2.5.*

It can be challenging to motivate/influence the Spark community to use the latest Python version which can delay the ability of Spectrum Conductor to use the latest Python version. "Pure Python/Non-Spark enabled" SIGs compatible with Python 3.10.*...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Conductor / Version 2.5.1 1 Future consideration

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

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

Optim to make use of REST API / S3 protocol instead CIFS protocol

The problem statement is below: OPTIM is unable the read any archive file from HCP device (cifs protocol used) and this has become more frequent for the past two weeks. The archive file written locally can be retrieved without any IO Error. The Op...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration