Creating an archive

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Use IBM® Optim Archive to define database connections, access definitions, subsets, and masking policies, and then combine them into a flow by using the flow builder canvas. When you're ready, run the flow as a job to extract the data to the target of your choice.

The IBM Optim Archive web application includes all of the tools that you need to define the entire end-to-end flow for your data: source, access definition, subset, mask, and target.

Figure 1. Flow of data in IBM Optim
Data flows from the source, through the access definition, then undergoes subsetting and masking before going to the target

Review the topics in this section for details about how to use IBM Optim Archive to define, run, and monitor your data workflows.