Release notes - IBM InfoSphere Optim 11.3

IBM® InfoSphere® Optim™ 11.3, which supports data growth, data masking, test data management, and application retirement initiatives for your relational data, is available. These release notes address compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues.

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Description

Using Optim 11.3, you can assess, classify, subset, archive, store, and access enterprise application data across databases and platforms.
  • With the archiving or data growth features of Optim, you can segregate historic data from current activity and safely remove it to secure offline storage, access the archived data easily, and restore archived data to its business context when necessary.
  • The Optim test data management capacity lets you create and populate appropriately sized development and test environments, automatically or manually edit the data in these environments to match your test cases, and compare test results with your original data.
  • Data masking features help you to prevent misuse of information by masking, obfuscating, and privatizing personal information that is propagated outside your production environment.

Announcement

The Optim 11.3 announcement can be found in the Optim Library. See the announcement for the following information:
  • Detailed product description, including a description of new functions
  • Product-positioning statement
  • Packaging and ordering details
  • International compatibility information

System requirements

For information about hardware and software compatibility, see the detailed system requirements.

Optim Open Data Manager

Optim Open Data Manager 11.3 is provided with a 30-day trial license that must be replaced with a permanent license for continued use. To obtain the permanent license, first-time installers of ODM must submit a Service Request.

If you are upgrading from a version other than 9.1.x, you must obtain a new permanent license for ODM in order to continue using it for more than 30 days after installation. Customers who are upgrading ODM can follow these directions to obtain a new license.

Documentation

Documentation is available from IBM Knowledge Center for IBM InfoSphere Optim Data Growth Solution information and IBM InfoSphere Optim Test Data Management Solution information. The Knowledge Center provides the most current content as it can be quickly updated. Installation media does not include documentation PDFs.

Installing Optim 11.3

To install Optim 11.3, follow the installation instructions on the Windows installation media. You can also find detailed installation instructions for each version of Optim using the IBM InfoSphere Optim Support portal :

Optim License

Upon initial installation of Optim, the following license information can be used for a full function trial of Optim:

For further License Key information, please send an email to: optkeys@us.ibm.com

Optim directory support and migration

For version 11.3 of the Optim solutions, the Optim directory requires a minimum database management level version as listed in Table below:

Table 1. Minimum database management systems that support the Optim directory
DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows Oracle SQL Server
v9.5 (FP10 or later) v11gR1 (11.1.0.7 or later) 2008 R1

See the Optim directory migration instructions to migrate the directory from a previously supported database management system.

Known issues

Known issues are documented in the form of individual Technotes in the Support knowledge base at the Integrated Data Management Support site. As problems are discovered and resolved, the Support knowledge base is updated. By searching the knowledge base, you can quickly find workarounds or solutions to problems as well as other documents such as downloads and detailed system requirements.

Notices

The NOTICES file is at installation directory\license\notices.txt