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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

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

Support required for Renaming Objects

As part of our developer self service for schema change approach, and new table a developer creates is added to a 'new objects' Db2 database - in an implicit tablespace. The DBA will subsequently come along and move the table to an explicit tables...
about 2 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Please test with and validate Windows 2022 for Optim TDM V11.7

We currently have Optim TDM V11.3 running on Windows 2016. I am working to plan a new server build where we would install Optim V11.7 on a NEW Windows server. I see from documentation that I can find that ONLY Windows 2019 is listed (unless I am l...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Oracle UROWID support

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over 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Optim zOS zIIP eligibilit...

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over 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

rowchangetimestampoverride as a load parameter

Our customer needs TIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP NOT NULL columns to be copied to the test environment. Actually these columns and values disappear during convert for load.
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Make compressed timestamp columns use TIMESTAMP datatype in the control file

After performing load service, Timestamps do not have milliseconds in Oracle target database althoughsource database timestamps have milliseconds Steps to Reproduce :Step1 : Unzip the histo.zip file provided in other to get "histo" folderStep2 : R...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

DOE Startup and Shutdown messages

During DOE startup or shutdown could see the below messages in SYSLOG N 4000000 RS01 2022272 09:43:09.66 STC07246 00000090 IZPS001I IBM Unified Management Server is being started N 4000000 RS01 2022272 09:43:21.63 STC07246 00000090 IZPS001I IBM Un...
about 3 years ago in Db2 DevOps Experience for z/OS 0 Planned for future release

Optim max parallel threads

OPTIM currently restricts the number of parallel threads to 48 max. If we consider that a mirror instance gets created for each request, we are limited to 24 processes. To give an idea, we have 8 applications that move data for each iteration. An ...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration