Optim Designer packages

Optim Designer includes several installation packages.

The following installation packages are available.

Optim™ Designer
Optim Designer enables you to define data models, data policies, and data management services for data privacy and test data management operations. You can define data models to create subsets of a data source as well as define data policies that determine how to mask and extract data. You can also use Optim Designer to create and test services based on Optim and Optim for z/OS® requests.

An IBM® InfoSphere® Data Architect installation is a prerequisite for Optim Designer. You must install the IBM InfoSphere Data Architect and Optim Designer installation packages as part of the same package group.

You must also install the Optim Shared Libraries before or at the same time as Optim Designer, however, you cannot install the Optim Shared Libraries at the same time as the InfoSphere Data Architect.

IBM InfoSphere Data Architect
IBM InfoSphere Data Architect is a visual data modeler. It helps you create new data models and unify organization-wide assets from disparate sources into a deployable model. You can share models across a team, print them, publish them on the Web, and translate them to physical implementations, which you can test and deploy.

An IBM InfoSphere Data Architect installation is a prerequisite for Optim Designer. You must install the IBM InfoSphere Data Architect and Optim Designer installation packages as part of the same package group.

The InfoSphere Data Architect license activation kit is located in the ida_activation_kit directory on the installation disc.

You can only install Data Architect with Optim Designer, Optim Designer Online Help, and InfoSphere Blueprint Director.

Optim Shared Libraries
The Optim Shared Libraries component contains native libraries that are required by all Optim components (Optim Designer, Optim Manager, Optim Management Server, and Optim Proxy). This component must be installed on every machine that has another Optim component installed and must be present before any Optim component can be executed on this computer.

This package also includes documentation for Optim Designer and the Optim Manager environment.

When installed with Optim Designer, the Optim Shared Libraries installation directory must be included in the following environment variable: For Windows, the PATH variable. For Linux, the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable.

Optim Designer Online Help
The Optim Designer Online Help component provides online help for Optim Designer. The online help includes documentation for Optim Designer and the Optim Manager environment.
InfoSphere Blueprint Director
InfoSphere Blueprint Director is a capability to further strengthen the alignment of business and IT and allowing you to govern your information projects. The integration team can collaborate on actionable information blueprints that connect the business vision with the corresponding technical metadata. Blueprint Director directs the team to apply best practices based on reference architectures and methodology.

To use Blueprint Director with Optim Designer, install Blueprint Director and Optim Designer in the same package group.