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Optim

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Segmentation data extraction

Current situation: the IBM Optim v11.7.0.0 tool performs record extraction in database engines in bulk on the configured tables. In this process, a "select *" query, without WHERE clause, is executed on all the records contained in the table. The ...
14 days ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 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 ...
10 days ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

Enhance OPTIM to default to "DOFILE_EXPANSION NO" on zOS.

Reduce SAVRS output by 90%. State Farm executes several thousand jobs a day when executing the scrubbing of our Enterprise Data Capture. If the underlying SAVRS datasets fill up, that causes problems, and they have to be prematurely migrated. Sinc...
20 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

OPTIM/HPU INTERFACE CHANGE TO ALLOW USE OF MULTIPLE IMAGE-COPY DATASETS

This is an enhancement request for OPTIM TDM for z/OS (FMID HAEYB70). OPTIM TDM/DP currently allows users to inform only one image-copy dataset (taken in another DB2 subsystem) in the process of extracting and converting data. In our environment w...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
5 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Data connector for CDH 7.x

Actually there is no Cloudera CDH 7x compatible connector. An improvement would be to be able to benefit from a datasource connector on Hive, HDFS and Impala services. We could use Optim DP and TDM either to read data from Hadoop, or to build data...
5 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Oracle NEXTVAL function to a character column with Optim's propagation function

Recovery of a key by Oracle number distributor to a 'VARCHAR' column. The customer (COVEA, an ISP contract worth 120 million euros) would like to be able to use the NEXTVAL function to apply it directly to a column defined as a VARCHAR in a primar...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 5 Not under consideration

Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Row limit reached "Warning" vs. "Error"

We believe its useful to show a warning notice instead of showing this as an error because basically its based on a setting that the user is specifying in the job configs prior to running the job. Its also helpful when a user might forget to remov...
7 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Under review

TRANS NID for spanish NIF/NIE should accept 9 characters

Spanish NIF/NIE has 9 characters so the TRANS NID function always skip the source row because it detects invalid lenght. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/iotdm/11.3?topic=function-masking-spanish-fiscal-identification-numbers
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 7 Not under consideration