Planning what features to install

You can customize your software product by selecting which features to install.

When you install the product package by using IBM® Installation Manager, the installation wizard displays the features in the available product package. From the features list, you can select which to install. A default set of features is selected for you (including any required features). Installation Manager automatically enforces any dependencies between features and prevents you from clearing any required features.
Tip: After you finish installing the package, you can still add or remove features from your software product by running the Modify Packages wizard in Installation Manager.

The following tables show the features of the product that you can install for each package. Default selections of features to install might vary. If a feature already exists in your shared resources directory, it will not be selected by default and will not be installed again.

Optim™ Management Server
Feature Description
Optim Management Server WAR File The Optim Management Server WAR files contains the necessary Optim Management Server components to run on your preferred application server such as IBM WebSphere® Application Server Community Edition (WAS-CE).
Optim Replacement Data Database The Optim Replacement Data Database is an Apache Derby database that contains replacement data. When you use Optim Designer to create services with privacy policies, you can set the privacy policies to use the replacement data to mask data in other databases.
Replacement Data, Sample Data, and User Data in Comma Separated Format (with associated DDL) This feature installs replacement data files, sample data files, and manager user data files in comma-separated (CSV) format, with accompanying Data Definition Language (DDL) files. Use these files to create replacement data tables, sample data tables, and manager user tables in the database of your choice. You could then use these tables instead of installing and using the Optim Replacement Data Database.
IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS-CE)
Feature Description
IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS-CE) IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS-CE) is a lightweight J2EE application server. It is based upon Apache Geronimo technology developed by the Apache Software Foundation.

The Optim Management Server and Optim Manager each require a J2EE application server.

WAS-CE can be used to simultaneously host the Optim Management Server and Optim Manager when installing these two components on the same machine. If you plan on using WAS-CE as your application server, only install one instance of WAS-CE on this machine.

You can install WAS-CE in the same package group as the following packages: Optim Management Server, Optim Manager, and the Optim Shared Libraries.

Optim Manager
Feature Description
Optim Manager WAR File The Optim Manager WAR files contains the necessary Optim Manager components to run on your preferred application server such as IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WAS-CE).
Optim Proxy
Feature Description
Optim Proxy The Optim Proxy is a distributed process that executes data management services on the behalf of the Optim Management Server. For fastest processing, install the Optim Proxy on the same machine as the data source or on a computer with a fast connection to the data source.
Optim Service Publisher
Feature Description
Optim Service Publisher Optim Service Publisher generates services from Optim distributed requests that you specify and publishes the generated services to an instance of an Optim registry. You can then use Optim Manager to run the generated services. This version of Optim Service Publisher is not compatible with previous Optim component releases.
Optim Shared Libraries
Feature Description
External Data Store Support 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 any other another Optim component installed and must be present before any Optim component can be executed on this machine.
Optim Designer and Optim Manger Documentation This feature installs documentation for Optim Designer and the Optim Manager environment.