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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...
4 months ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 2 Needs more information

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...
11 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

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.
8 months ago in Optim / Optim Archive 2 Future consideration

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 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 7 Not under consideration

Add support for native Aziure Databases - Cosmos

Many companies have slowly implemented a hybrid cloud architecture. I am the lead TDM engineer at GM and we have no solution for native azure db's - Cosmo
12 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Please test with and validate Windows 2022 for Optim TDM V11.7

We currently have Optim TDM V11.3 running on Windows 2016. I am working to plan a new server build where we would install Optim V11.7 on a NEW Windows server. I see from documentation that I can find that ONLY Windows 2019 is listed (unless I am l...
6 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

64-bit support on Linux

Please enable 64-bit processing for Optim on Linux. Our consumers are forced to use Windows servers because of the 32-bit restriction on Linux.
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

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...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 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 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Future consideration

Optim Separate File LOB Extract

Optim Connect does not offer a way to extract CLOBS or BLOB data types to separate files. If you have a file imbedded in a BLOB field a 3rd party tool is required to extract the data. Optim Connect does not have support for CLOBs and maps it t...
about 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration