Version 9, Release 1 of IBM® InfoSphere® Optim™ provides many enhancements. Install the
latest feature pack to obtain access to all enhancements.
Installation and configuration
- Consolidated launch pad to install the components for InfoSphere Optim clients, servers, and web services
- Easier installation and configuration of Optim server with integrated HTTP connectivity
to other InfoSphere Optim components
- New IBM InfoSphere Optim Connection
Manager web service component to manage connections between InfoSphere Optim components and Optim directories
General
- Better integration between Optim directories, InfoSphere Optim Designer and InfoSphere Optim Manager
- New IBM Optim Service Interface web service component
to provide an application programming interface (API) for service
and work order management
- Two-way integration with IBM Atlas
eDiscovery Process Management
- Enhanced archive file support:
- Storage retention with suspension and resumption of expiration
- Split, hold, expire, and convert capabilities
- File validation
- Command-line interface capabilities for creation of archive file
indexes and registration of protected archive files
- Open data manager support for archive files with more than 4,000,000,000
rows
- Data source creation wizards in Optim Connect
Studio to register archive files and archive file collections
- Enhancements to Optim Connect,
including:
- Case insensitive collation for Microsoft SQL
Server data sources
- A general solution for big arithmetic that increases the supported
upper limit for precision from 15 to 34
- Delete by ROWID on Oracle data sources
- Multi-column search in lookup functions
- Extended support for Teradata, including support for:
- Teradata Binary Loader format
- TPT for child tables
- The SAMPLE clause on extract
- Native processing support for Netezza®,
including tier migration
- Toleration support for additional relational database systems
- Support for additional platforms
- Auditing of additional events, including open data manager access
to archive files
- Optional streaming of audit records to IBM InfoSphere Guardium® for database activity
monitoring
For the latest information about database and platform support,
see the IBM InfoSphere Optim system
requirements technote on the Web:
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27024294.
InfoSphere Optim Designer
- Simple but robust scripting language for advanced column transformations
- Local scripting within a column map
- Named scripting that can be called from multiple column maps within
an Optim directory
- Simplified creation wizards for all test data management definitions
and services
- Full-function editors to maintain all test data management definitions
and services
- Redesigned and simplified perspective
InfoSphere Optim Manager
- Work order feature to track requests for service creation
- Ability to restart services upon failure
- Ability to change service overrides and variables before execution