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Optim Test Data Management

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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...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Support Postgres DBAlias via pr0cnfg on Linux

Per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=tasks-syntax-keywords, the pr0cnfg command only supports adding DBAliases for Oracle and UDB DBMS types on Linux. This means that we must use Windows if we want to use Optim Data Privacy to mask Pos...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

z/OS Infosphere Optim - Data Migration : add a DELETE DLI function

Our SI is mixed DLI and DB2. Therefore, our OPTIM ADS use DLI database and DB2 tables. Before we refresh data, we delete DLI et DB2 data in cohérence. The deletes are only partial [DLI Bases and DB2 tables are not emptied] Optim offer a standard D...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 2 Future consideration

Provide UDF functions on an EC2-hosted PostgresSQL DB

SHORT-TERM (1-2 months): Ideally, we are looking for EC2 support for PostgreSQL versions 11 and 12 . To be honest, we do not need the full set of functions. What we require ASAP is the following subset of functions: HASH Provider with sha-256 - We...
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Optim z/OS Install CLIST maintain proper buffer pools

I would like to suggest that the installation panels for Optim be changed to allow for separate bufferpools to be entered and retained for tablespaces with 4K and 8K page sizes. Currently you enter a buffer pool for tablespaces and another for ind...
almost 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Optim.Source.getcolumnasbytes funtion to be coded in Optim distributed.

It looks as though the Optim.Source.getcolumnasbytes function is not available for Optim Distributed.
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Display Db2 Load Output in Optim

BP is doing a Db2 Load of data within Optim to a Db2 table, but the load results (number of records loaded, etcetera) are not displayed. For other DBMSes that he uses, the actual load output/results are displayed. The BP would like an enhancement ...
over 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Optim ZO/S Enhancement request

Please see attachment for the 2 enhancement requests for Optim ZO/S.
almost 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 3 Functionality already exists

Make Optim Workstation component of TDM work with Windows User Account Control (UAC).

Optim Workstation portion of TDM will not work if Windows "User Account Control" is turned on. UAC was introduced in Windows Vista/XP and Optim still has issues with it. Microsoft has information available on how to work within UAC constraints. Pl...
almost 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Future consideration

Infosphere Optim TDM - Function CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 missing for LUW

Short problem description: "CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4". There is a option in Optim for z/OS reguarding conversion error. From the manual. CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 Option to enforce how the return code is set when conversion errors are detected or rows ar...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration