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Optim

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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...
8 days ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Submitted

PostgreSQL for Optim Directory

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

Optim support cockroach databases

Optim support cockroach databases
20 days ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 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

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 ...
about 1 month ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 1 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...
about 2 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

Postgresql 16 support

We'd like an Optim release compatible with Postgresql 16 datasources for TDM and DP.
6 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...
6 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Submitted

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...
8 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Under review

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.
about 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Not under consideration