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.

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Description

Using Optim 11.7, you can assess, classify, subset, archive, store, and access enterprise application data across databases and platforms.

What’s new in 11.7.0


Support for the following platforms is added:


Support for the following Database Management Systems for both the Optim Directory and DB Aliases:


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:

IBM DB2® for z/OS® Multibyte Character Support

Optim 11.7 includes support for DB2 for z/OS multibyte characters with the following limitations:



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:

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

v9.5 (FP10 or later)

v11g R1 (11.1.0.7 or later)

2008 R1

v9.7

v11g R2 (11.2)

2008 R2

v10.1

v12c R1

2012

v10.5

v12c R2

2014

v11.1

v18c

2016

v11.5

v19c

2017



2019

Table 1. Database management systems that support the Optim directory

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