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Search results: Optim

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Database connection drops during the OPTIM load process

The Optim load request process has 2 steps. 1) Convert the Optim extract file to native loader ready files 2) Trigger the native DB load process Optim initially makes a DB connection at the start of the load process. When the file convert process ...
over 1 year ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

Optim does not allow to start new ISPF screen when we use START command on command line.

Dear Sir, We are using InfoSphere Optim 11.7 tool and we are not able to open new session of ISPF using START command being on OPTIM tool. To open a new ISPF session we need to end the Optim tool. Our suggesting to have both Optim's and ISPF START...
about 2 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Delivered

Optim audit tables retaining too much data

In the table Optim_Audit_Records, I see 1-2 records per archive/extract/insert. This appears to have started in Nov 2017 about when installed optim 11.3. Yet we have Optim Auditing turned off. So it appears that maybe Optim 11.3 started putting re...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Allow Multi-Key Deletes from Parent Tables

Optim Data Growth currently has a restriction in place to disallow using a multi-key delete strategy on a Parent table. If you attempt to delete more than one key at a time, Optim will issue a severe warning code and then default the key limit to ...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Provision summary report on data archival processing

An enhancement or a new menu is needed in Optim to generate and show a report on archival and deletion processing summary so far OR based on some filters. Below is the business case. Requirement : Customers have been using the Optim based archi...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Estimate time for archive

This may only apply for Retirement since we use all reference tables without SQL. It would be a nice to have if Optim could have a function to take an archive request and attempt to estimate the time required to archive. I see this as looking at i...
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 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...
over 3 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 1 Future consideration

z/OS Infosphere Optim - Data Masking - GDPR - New LUA function

The need is about the data masking and the GDPR constraints. Our développers used the LUA capabilities of z/OS Optim. The needs are convert in a bijective way a numeric chain in a other numeric chain if we run repeatedly a convert with the same ch...
almost 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Data Privacy 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...
about 4 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Management 0 Not under consideration

#1 - Optim TDF -image file available for implementation within a Docker Container along with the documentation of the setup and deployment steps.

Based on a review of previous documents and our current experience with the Optim Test Data Fabrication tool, we are requesting the below items be considered as Requirements from State Farm for enhancements to the Optim Test Data Fabrication tool....
over 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Test Data Fabrication 0 Not under consideration

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