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.