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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Optim

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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 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration

TDF currently does not support SSL/TLS LDAP

We need TDF to support SSL/TLS LDAP to setup LDAP authentication in Prod TDF envts. Currently according to TS014229415 TDF does not support SSL/TLS LDAP.
12 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Not under consideration

Send Test Email Issue

When trying to test the email functionality in TDM by clicking on the "Send Test Email" button, We don't get an error and it says that the test email was sent but we don't get any emails. According to IBM support there is no way to trace the "Send...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 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 2 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 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Optim TDM 11.7 for DB2 on z/OS - Overrides for both, SRCCID and DESTCID in Table Maps

Hello IBM, We use Optim TDM extensively for setting up Test Data by extracting from Live and inserting into different UAT environments. Instead of generating the jobs each time a request comes, we have a set of batch jobs that are run when a reque...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

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 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Optim Separate File LOB Extract

Optim Connect does not offer a way to extract CLOBS or BLOB data types to separate files. If you have a file imbedded in a BLOB field a 3rd party tool is required to extract the data. Optim Connect does not have support for CLOBs and maps it t...
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 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 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Future consideration