The IBM® InfoSphere Optim™ solutions manage enterprise data throughout every stage of the information lifecycle, enabling your company to assess, classify, subset, archive, store, and access enterprise application data.
Using the archiving features in Optim, you can accomplish the following tasks:
The Optim test data management capabilities provide an efficient alternative to database cloning, allowing you to create development and testing environments that are sized appropriately.
Optim helps you achieve these benefits with the following components: Archive, Move, Edit, and Compare.
The Scheduler allows you to schedule Optim processes to run periodically, in sequence, or both. This feature allows you to execute selected processes at a convenient time or on a regular basis.
The Optim Server allows you to define tasks on workstations and direct any resource-intensive data processing functions to a machine more suited to the task. This machine can be one on which the database is located, eliminating associated network traffic, or a machine dedicated to the Server function.
The Configuration program provides a way to configure workstations (including machines hosting the Server) to use Optim. Using the Configuration program, you can also maintain and customize the Optim environment.
Additional features allow you to run processes from the command line, restart a process that terminates abnormally, retry a process for which all rows are not processed successfully, customize the handling of dates for aging data and scheduling processes, convert currency, browse files generated by Optim, and create database objects from definitions in generated files.
Optim is easy to use, simple in concept, yet powerful in supporting complex database structures. Intuitive dialogs simplify data entry tasks and provide options for processing relationally intact sets of data. Intelligent window handling technology allows you to display multiple dialogs, pop-up windows, context-sensitive online help, and tutorials.
Depending upon your licensing agreement, you may use one or more components of Optim.