IBM Infosphere Optim Reviews & Product Details

Easy to use for data access especially on mainframe. Great for data management with ability to mask data for testing, move or copy data from one database or environment to another. Also works well for data archival Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Report generation can be improved. Summarizing of data or reporting features could be added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Covers connectivity with most mainframe applications. Easily customizable with own programming. Can be well automated. Best tool for mainframe applications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

in built masking scripts are lacking. very limited support for REGEX in mainframe. Auomated running of jobs is difficult in the windows version. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of connection between data sources.. also connects to legacy applications and can be used to migrate data to LUW dbs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Replication performance gets slower if indexes are not dropped.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tackle business and organization security problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Is not very know the solutions and is a little complex to understand the optim family products. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Easy to archive structured data.

* Data from relational database can be archived as is in Optim.

* Data can be archived for as long as required.

* Highly inexpensive archival solution (I got 92 cents per GB/ per year in my organization!!)

* Access controlled and easy to manage.

* Helps comply with data retention guidelines Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

* Supports only structured data as far as I have understood Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.