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Optim Archive

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Process large reference tables by partition

As I understand it, reference tables will only be process with one thread at a time. However, I know that large tables that are not reference tables are spilt up by keys to allow for multi threaded processing. It seems that if you have a reference...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Allow record count limit for reference tables

We only do Archive for decommission. We like to test Optim against each of the tables to ensure we will not have any surprises when we run the full archive. It is very disappointing to run an archive and have it fail several hours into the process...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Batch or Multi Delete of Archive Requests and Access Definitions

Currently we have a method to test Optim archive against the tables that we are going to archive. To do this against Sql server, we have to take the Access definition and archive request and generate one per table. This causes a large number of it...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Enable authentication on non-root instances of Optim Connect Server

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almost 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Poor deletion performance...

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about 7 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Archive Report - Requesti...

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over 8 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 (*)...
about 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Automate the Merge User o...

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almost 9 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 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 4 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 5 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 6 Not under consideration