1. Optim Virtual User Group Meeting Offering Management Update
16 July 2019
Peter Costigan
Banele Levin

2. Optim Test Data Fabrication 1.0.1
eGA Friday 17 May 2019
Key items:
Performance: TDF Parallel Edition preview.
Certain (DB, independent) fabrications are running 7x faster
Work under way: enhance for parallel IO, JDBC -> ODBC, file fabrication and more interdependent fabrication cases
Containers installation support
RESTful APIs for Design time activities (so now everything)
User modelling of enforced application Referential Integrity
EBCDIC character data fabrication support
Pluggable File Metadata importers (XML and JSON supported)

3. Key Goals for Optim Test Data Fabrication Parallel Edition
Performance: TDF Parallel Edition
User Interface enhancements for Testers (execution UI)
User Interface enhancements for Fabrication designers
Container and Cloud enhancements TBD
One of:
Take metadata from Optim TDM Legacy Tables
COBOL parser metadata

4. Virtual Data Pipeline 8.1.1 eGA mid-July 2019
Release numbering scheme correspondence: IBM VDP <-> Actifio Sky
IBM VDP <-> Actifio Sky 8.1.x 
VDP <-> VDP Appliance and IVGM 9.0.x
In 8.1.1:
Support for Oracle 18c and Oracle on Ubuntu.
More support for NFS captures instead of iSCSI
Global Manager (IVGM) usability enhancements
More: See
Plans for Q3/Q4:
Closer integration of VDP with Optim Data Privacy
Db2 LUW “full” support on Linux and AIX