IBM® InfoSphere® Optim™ 11.3,
which supports data growth, data masking, test data management, and
application retirement initiatives for your relational data, is available.
These release notes address compatibility, installation, and other
getting-started issues.
Description
Using Optim 11.3,
you can assess, classify, subset, archive, store, and access enterprise
application data across databases and platforms.
- With the archiving or data growth features of Optim, you can segregate historic data from
current activity and safely remove it to secure offline storage, access
the archived data easily, and restore archived data to its business
context when necessary.
- The Optim test data management
capacity lets you create and populate appropriately sized development
and test environments, automatically or manually edit the data in
these environments to match your test cases, and compare test results
with your original data.
- Data masking features help you to prevent misuse of information
by masking, obfuscating, and privatizing personal information that
is propagated outside your production environment.
Announcement
The Optim 11.3 announcement can be found in the
Optim Library.
See the announcement for the following information:
- Detailed product description, including a description of new functions
- Product-positioning statement
- Packaging and ordering details
- International compatibility information
Compatibility with earlier versions
Optim 11.3
no longer supports these operating systems:
- AIX® 5.2
- Solaris 8
- Windows 2000
- HP-IA
- HP-Risc
Optim Open
Data Manager
Optim Open
Data Manager 11.3 is provided with a 30-day trial license that must
be replaced with a permanent license for continued use. To obtain
the permanent license, first-time installers of ODM must submit a Service Request.
If you are upgrading from
a version other than 9.1.x, you must obtain a new permanent license
for ODM in order to continue using it for more than 30 days after
installation. Customers who are upgrading ODM can follow
these directions to obtain a new license.
IBM DB2 for z/OS Multibyte Character Support
Optim 11.3 includes support for DB2® for z/OS® multibyte characters with the following
limitations:
- DB2 LUW v9.7 FixPack 5 or
higher is required on the Optim client/server.
- Optim Load into a DB2 z/OS system
does not support object names (for example, table names, column names,
and so on) that contain MBCS-type characters.
- CLOB and DBCLOB data is not supported in an ASCII or Unicode tablespace.
Installing Optim 11.3
To
install Optim 11.3, follow
the installation instructions on the Windows installation
media.
Upon initial installation of Optim, the following license information can
be used for a full function trial of Optim:
- Company Name: OPTIMDEMO
- Company ID: 388713
- Company Password: 9863ZU
- License Key: LRIOLG-FVKFPN-STMBJ7-QY7EZS-4ZWSG1
For further License Key information, please send an email
to: optkeys@us.ibm.com
Optim directory
support and migration
For version 11.3 of the Optim solutions, the Optim directory is supported on the following
database management systems:
Table 1. Database management
systems that support the Optim directory| DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows |
Oracle |
SQL Server |
|---|
| v9.5 (FP10 or later) |
v11gR1 (11.1.0.7 or later) |
2008 R1 |
| v9.7 |
v11gR2 (11.2) |
2008 R2 |
| v10.1 |
v12c |
2012 |
| v11.1 |
v12cR2 |
2016 |
See the Optim directory
migration instructions to migrate the directory from a previously
supported database management system.
Known issues
Known issues are documented
in the form of individual Technotes in the Support knowledge base
at the Integrated Data Management Support site. As
problems are discovered and resolved, the Support knowledge base is
updated. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds
or solutions to problems as well as other documents such as downloads
and detailed system requirements.
Notices
The NOTICES file is
at installation directory\license\notices.txt