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Optim Test Data Management

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Send Test Email Issue

When trying to test the email functionality in TDM by clicking on the "Send Test Email" button, We don't get an error and it says that the test email was sent but we don't get any emails. According to IBM support there is no way to trace the "Send...
4 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

No need to restart the OPTIM service for the server settings changes to take effect

Currently and according to IBM documentation " Note: If you make changes to the configuration of a Server while it is running, click Apply , then stop and start the Server to effect the changes." As we're having more customers using TDM we are try...
5 months ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

rowchangetimestampoverride as a load parameter

Our customer needs TIMESTAMP GENERATED ALWAYS FOR EACH ROW ON UPDATE AS ROW CHANGE TIMESTAMP NOT NULL columns to be copied to the test environment. Actually these columns and values disappear during convert for load.
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 3 Not under 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...
almost 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...
almost 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Optim.Source.getcolumnasbytes funtion to be coded in Optim distributed.

It looks as though the Optim.Source.getcolumnasbytes function is not available for Optim Distributed.
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Display Db2 Load Output in Optim

BP is doing a Db2 Load of data within Optim to a Db2 table, but the load results (number of records loaded, etcetera) are not displayed. For other DBMSes that he uses, the actual load output/results are displayed. The BP would like an enhancement ...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Make Optim Workstation component of TDM work with Windows User Account Control (UAC).

Optim Workstation portion of TDM will not work if Windows "User Account Control" is turned on. UAC was introduced in Windows Vista/XP and Optim still has issues with it. Microsoft has information available on how to work within UAC constraints. Pl...
almost 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Infosphere Optim TDM - Function CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 missing for LUW

Short problem description: "CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4". There is a option in Optim for z/OS reguarding conversion error. From the manual. CONVERSION_ERROR_RC4 Option to enforce how the return code is set when conversion errors are detected or rows ar...
about 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 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...
over 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Not under consideration