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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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 invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Enable recursive relationship processing for single table

IBM InfoSphere Optim should support recursive relationships when an Access Definition contains a single table. Currently, the Access Definition and Steps utility recognize the recursive relationship and display the expected processing steps, inclu...
4 days ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Add Subscription Level Replication Statistics to the Product Functionality

In case of high QReplication workload its sometimes necessary to determine the causing table / subscription of this workload fast and efficient for Problem determination . Currently workload Statistics are implemented at an Queue level (in Table I...

Adding support in Q Apply for Db2 data lake target tables and supporting CCD tables in Db2 Data Lake

Data lakes have become an indispensable part of today's database landscape, particularly they avoid vendor lock-in; key concepts here include open data and open table formats. One challenge in managing data lake tables in a Db2 is detecting change...

connect to sqlserver 2025

Dear IBM Support and Product Management Team, We would like to formally submit a Request for Enhancement (RFE) for the support of Microsoft SQL Server 2025 in IBM InfoSphere Optim. Our organization is currently evaluating and planning the adoption...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 0 Submitted

Implicit and automatic reconnect to databases

Implicit and automatic reconnect to database in case of connectivity Failure(s) , aka cluster switch , database restart etc . Q-Replication scenarios: 1) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Db2 LUW2) Q-Replication DB2 z/OS > Oracle Q-REP apply process ...
5 months ago in Data Replication: Q-Replication & Availability 0 Submitted

Add support for Oracle quoted table names containing forward slashes

IBM Optim Data Privacy currently does not support Oracle tables whose names contain forward slashes (/) and are created as quoted identifiers. These table names are commonly used by SAP ECC (for example, /BEV3/CHBPAKNA1S and /WATP/VMOBMROIA). Alth...
about 1 month ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 0 Submitted

Identify major LOG captures.

We frequently experience delays in QREP Capture readings on our peak processing days without any apparent monster transactions. Transactions and rows continue to be processed, but at a slower rate than the actual log reads. In these cases, we have...

CSV and Excel compatible export and intelligent analysis function for Db2zAI

Db2zAI DCC provide training recommendations for distributed connection and thread control. However, we have to manually copy these numbers in to an excel so we can compare, review, analyze, approve and track the activities. The manual process is t...
4 months ago in Db2 AI for z/OS 0 Submitted

SAP HANA Support for IBM Optim 2.0

SAP HANA is currently not listed among the supported data sources/targets for IBM Optim 2.0. We have a customer currently using SAP HANA and are evaluating their future adoption/upgrade to IBM Optim 2.0. We would like IBM Optim 2.0 to provide nati...
29 days ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 0 Submitted

Consistent/Dependent Masking Across Related Columns in IBM Optim Data Privacy

IBM Optim Data Privacy currently applies masking policies independently at the column level, which can result in inconsistent data when multiple columns have a logical relationship. For example, if the source data contains: First Name: ARAVIND | L...
29 days ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 0 Submitted