IBM Optim Development Studio product overview

Optim Development Studio provides a comprehensive suite of integrated tools for development database administrators and application developers. The tooling for each of these roles is essentially divided between two main views in the Data Perspective: the Data Project Explorer, and the Data Source Explorer. There are also features to help team members share resources.

IBM Optim Development Studio offers the following features. Some features are optional during installation.

Getting started

In addition to this overview, there are several tutorials that are available to help you get started with Optim Development Studio. To access tutorials, expand the Tutorials category in the information center.

If you are new to the Eclipse development environment, view the Eclipse Basic tutorial. Click the link, then click the Show in Table of Contents icon in the information center to see the entire tutorial.

You can link directly to important getting started information from the Welcome page in Optim Development Studio by clicking Help > Welcome.

Data application developer features
Data and database object management features

Optim Development Studio provides the following key features for database object management. Typically these tasks are done on test databases that you are using to test your applications.

Team features
If you are working on a large team, you can use the following features to enable team members to share resources:

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