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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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Metadata XML of Archive file has No differenciation between varchar and varchar(max)

Please refer TS017199755 Archive viewer used these XML files to map the datatypes of the column and the way optim processes the Varchar and Varchar(Max) is different and way we convert this to parquet will also be different. Now we are relying on ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Optim not able to see these nested tables and the parent table

The nested tables are going to be in the same realm as complex nested view where Optim currently is not robust enough to access the correct meta data for them.
7 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Allow hotfixes to be deployed to FTM via using init containers without relying on persistent storage

Allow hotfixes to be deployed to FTM via using init containers without relying on persistent storage, it we'd like to be able to populate a /shared/gateway-server/hotfix and have it picked up during pod start time.
9 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 1 Not under consideration

TRANS NID for spanish NIF/NIE should accept 9 characters

Spanish NIF/NIE has 9 characters so the TRANS NID function always skip the source row because it detects invalid lenght. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=function-masking-spanish-fiscal-identification-numbers
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 7 Not under consideration

Component Name missing in Log Details pages

The Log Details page in the UI System Logs for Distribution messages does not contain the Component Name. This makes it more difficult to research issues. also missing from other components.
10 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

support for adding custom metadata to the FTM pods

Pods must have CARID annotations to feed Splunk for logging segregation from PMR TS018485297 usb has a requirement to have CAR ID annotation in all pods. Container based applications which do not have an associated CARID annotation will be dropped...
10 months ago in Financial Transaction Manager  / FTM Common Services 0 Under review

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