Release notes - IBM InfoSphere Optim 11.7
IBM®
InfoSphere® Optim™ 11.7, 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.
Contents
What’s new in 11.7.0
Fix List
Description
Using Optim 11.7, 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.
What’s new in 11.7.0
Support for the following platforms is added:
Windows 2019
RHEL 8
SUSE 15
AIX 7.2 TL4
Support for the following Database Management Systems for both the Optim Directory and DB Aliases:
Microsoft SQL Server 2016 on AIX and Linux
Microsoft SQL Server 2017 on AIX and Linux
Microsoft SQL Server 2019 on all Optm supported platforms
Use of the Windows registry has been removed.
A new data masking verification feature is provided.
The silent install process has been streamlined via the new Optim Utility Scripts.
WebSphere Liberty replaces WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WASCE).
Support for IPv6 on Windows only.
Optim now has Java as a pre-requisite, rather than including it.
Support for Optim Data Privacy Provider (ODPP) User Defined Functions (UDFs) in Netezza 11.2 (64-bit only, as Netezza 11.2 is 64-bit only).
Announcement
The Optim 11.7 announcement can be found at the IBM Offering Information site. 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
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DB2® for z/OS® Multibyte Character Support
Optim 11.7 includes support for DB2 for z/OS multibyte characters with the following limitations:
DB2 LUW v9.7 FixPack 5 or higher is required on the Optim client/server.
Optim Load into a DB2 z/OS system does not support object names (for example, table names, column names, and so on) that contain MBCS-type characters.
CLOB and DBCLOB data is not supported in an ASCII or Unicode tablespace.
System requirements
For information about hardware and software compatibility, see the detailed system requirements. These can be generated using the IBM Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR) web site: https://www.ibm.com/software/reports/compatibility/clarity/index.html
Fix List
For a summary list of fixes that are included in Version 11.7, see the Fix List document.
Installation instructions for Optim 11.7
To install Optim 11.7 please follow the installation instructions in this documentation.
IBM License Metric Tool
The files used by the IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) are installed with an extension of optswidtag. After you configure the first workstation, the files to which you have entitlement for will have their extensions changed to swidtag.
If you use ILMT, complete the following manual process to activate it for data sources that do not reside on an Optim server or on a z/OS system:
Locate the set of *.swidtag files residing at: Optim_Root\properties\version on the Optim server
Copy the *.swidtag files to: \\server_root\IBM\InfoSphere\Optim\ITLM on any server hosting data sources that you are using Optim on.
Optim directory support
For version 11.7 of the Optim solutions, the Optim directory is supported on the following database management systems:
|
DB2 for Linux™, UNIX™, and Windows |
Oracle |
SQL Server |
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v9.5 (FP10 or later) |
v11g R1 (11.1.0.7 or later) |
2008 R1 |
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v9.7 |
v11g R2 (11.2) |
2008 R2 |
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v10.1 |
v12c R1 |
2012 |
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v10.5 |
v12c R2 |
2014 |
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v11.1 |
v18c |
2016 |
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v11.5 |
v19c |
2017 |
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2019 |
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Table 1. Database management systems that support the Optim directory |
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Known issues
Known issues are documented in the form of individual Technotes in the Support knowledge base at the IBM 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