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Optim Archive

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Enable shell command to recall the archive file stored in Centera storage

In a scenario where the customer gets an audit request to retrieve the older data stored in the archive file and copied over to Centera storage, for a given date range, the customer currently has to use the "Recall complete file" option through Op...
3 days ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

PostgreSQL for Optim Directory

Customer prefers PostgreSQL
15 days ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Submitted

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 month ago in Optim / Optim Archive 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 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

Optim Db2 LUW - LOAD support in IXF format when there are XML data type fields in the table.

Optim does not support to perform a LOAD process using IXF format when there are XML data type fields in the table. Note that IXF is a more robust/compact format to exchange data between Db2 databases. See cases: TS003467645 and TS003290043 (two d...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

OPTIM ODM should support secure ciphers

As documented in: IBM® Optim Connect Optim Connect Server User Guide and Reference Version 5.3.3 Daemon Security Tab - Encryption methods: "Indicates the encryption method used to send information across the network. The default is an asterisk (*)...
about 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Support NetApp StorageGrid

Company is migrating object storage from EMC ECS to NetApp StorageGrid.
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Not under consideration

Support of Windows Server 2019 for Optim Client

We have Optim Archive working with 2012 but will be upgrading all Windows servers to 2019.
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Run SQL queries having joins on the tables

We use the Relational Archive Facility in IBM's InfoSphere Optim z/OS Solution to archive and then purge the data. We have created Access Definitions (AD) and each AD has a set of tables with SQL WHERE clause for some of them for extracting the da...
over 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 6 Not under consideration