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Optim Test Data Management

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Oracle UROWID support

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about 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Optim zOS zIIP eligibilit...

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over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Make compressed timestamp columns use TIMESTAMP datatype in the control file

After performing load service, Timestamps do not have milliseconds in Oracle target database althoughsource database timestamps have milliseconds Steps to Reproduce :Step1 : Unzip the histo.zip file provided in other to get "histo" folderStep2 : R...
about 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Same level of performance in extract processes in DB2 and IMS when qualifing the column of the cluster index

Since OPTIM V11.7, we experienced dramatic performance regressions with the component "Extract on an IMS Database". The extract criterion is almost all the fields of the primary/cluster key. The database contains 15.6 millions records - 1 hit i...
about 3 years 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...
about 3 years 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 3 years 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...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under 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...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Ability to version contro...

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almost 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

new column not automaticl...

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almost 8 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration