About IBM Optim Test Data Management

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IBM Optim Test Data Management helps organizations to manage and provision secure, production-like test data across complex, hybrid data environments.

You can use IBM Optim Test Data Management to enable your development and testing teams to efficiently locate, subset, mask, and deliver business-aligned test data while preserving referential integrity and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations.

Designed with a cloud-native, containerized architecture, IBM Optim Test Data Management provides scalable deployment options and a modern user interface to simplify setup and operations. IBM Optim is suitable for development, testing, and QA teams seeking to reduce test data preparation time, improve test coverage, and maintain compliance with data privacy regulations.

IBM Optim provides right-sized, scenario-specific data subsets from heterogeneous production systems, which leads to reduced storage costs, improved test coverage, and accelerated release cycles.

IBM Optim Test Data Management supports modern application development practices by automating test data discovery and delivery through API-driven workflows, enabling continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD). IBM Optim integrates with IBM’s broader data and AI ecosystem to support enterprise-wide data governance and modernization initiatives.

Comparing IBM Optim products

IBM Optim Test Data Management shares some capabilities with the following related IBM Optim products:
IBM Optim Archive

Use IBM Optim Archive to archive or retire historical data while optimizing storage costs, improving application performance, and minimizing risks associated with data retention and compliance. IBM Optim Archive is available with a Workgroup edition license, a Solution edition license, or an Enterprise edition license. For more information, see the IBM Optim Archive documentation on IBM Docs.

IBM Optim Data Privacy

IBM Optim Data Privacy provides you with a single, scalable solution to securely mask and de-identify sensitive data across your enterprise. IBM Optim Data Privacy is available with a Workgroup edition license or an Enterprise edition license. For more information, see the IBM Optim Data Privacy documentation on IBM Docs.

The following table shows which IBM Optim capabilities and features are included in each of the three IBM Optim products. Contact IBM Sales or IBM Support to discuss which product and license edition is right for your organization.

Table 1. Feature differences between IBM Optim products
Capability IBM Optim Archive 2.0.0 (Workgroup edition, Solution edition, or Enterprise edition) IBM Optim Test Data Management 2.0.0 (Workgroup edition, Solution edition, or Enterprise edition) IBM Optim Data Privacy 2.0.0 (Workgroup edition or Enterprise edition)
Connect to data sources
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Create access definitions
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Manage jobs
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Define data subsets
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Mask data
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Export data
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Archive data
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
Restore archives to a database
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
View archives
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
Enterprise edition: No
Define IBM Optim relationships
Solution edition: No
Enterprise edition: Yes
Solution edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: Yes
Enterprise edition: No

IBM Optim software usage metrics

The following table details the metrics that IBM uses to track the usage of IBM Optim product software, according to the license agreements. IBM Optim uses two metrics by which the software can be licensed, depending on the product and edition:
  • Processor value units (PVU): A PVU is a unit of measurement used by IBM to determine licensing costs for software, based on the computing power of the processor cores it runs on rather than just the number of servers.
  • Terabytes (TB): A Terabyte is 2 to the 40th power bytes. Licensees must obtain an entitlement for each terabyte available to IBM Optim software.
Table 2. Comparing IBM Optim software license metrics
IBM Optim product and edition Processor value units (PVU) Terabytes (TB)
IBM Optim Archive Enterprise edition license Yes Yes
IBM Optim Archive Solution edition license Yes No
IBM Optim Test Data Management Enterprise edition license Yes Yes
IBM Optim Test Data Management Solution edition license Yes No
IBM Optim Data Privacy Enterprise edition license Yes Yes

For more information about tracking software usage metrics, see Enabling SLM tags and the IBM License Metric Tool documentation on IBM Docs.