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Optim Archive

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Enable authentication on non-root instances of Optim Connect Server

IBM Software RFE Community: View request Description: Enable authentication on non-root instances of Optim Connect Server service Use case: Optim Connect Server is started with a non-root account. Optim Connect Server authentication is enabled. Us...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Poor deletion performance...

No description provided
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 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 (*)...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 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 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Archive Report - Requesti...

No description provided
over 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Automate the Merge User o...

No description provided
about 8 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 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 6 Not under consideration

Abililty for Optim to archive Oracle 12.1 data types UROWID & SQL_PLAN_TABLE_TYPE

We recently had a database that had these 2 Oracle 12 datatypes. We had to mark these tables out of scope: UROWID & SQL_PLAN_TABLE_TYPE
almost 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

We need to create nicknames for ODM data source from db2 federation server using JDBC driver. It is failing if the ODM data source table has indexes. ODBC driver can handle this situation, but not with JDBC driver. Please make this function available.

We need to create nicknames for ODM data source from db2 federation server using JDBC driver. It is failing if the ODM data source table has indexes. ODBC driver can handle this situation, but not with JDBC driver. Please make this function availa...
about 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

We need to create nicknames for ODM data source from db2 federation server using JDBC driver. It is failing if the ODM data source table has indexes. ODBC driver can handle this situation, but not with JDBC driver. Please make this function available.

We need to create nicknames for ODM data source from db2 federation server using JDBC driver. It is failing if the ODM data source table has indexes. ODBC driver can handle this situation, but not with JDBC driver. Please make this function availa...
about 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration