Enabling Masking on the Sequential File CUSTOMER and NAME and SURNAME classes

Data Masking lets you enable masking for individual data stores or all data stores, and to enable masking at the data-element level or class level.

In this exercise you will be masking at the class level by activating masking for the data store CUSTOMER at the class (NAME and SURNAME) level.

Note: To mask at the data-element level, double-click the desired data store from the Main Window, right-click the desired data element, and then click Data Changer Data Element Properties. Click Change, click Yes to activate the Changer option, and finally click Apply to activate your setting.
  1. In Data Masking, click the ALL Machine ID./Companies list.
  2. Expand the All Machine ID./Companies node
  3. Double-click the DATAEXPRES machine ID.
  4. Select the row for the data store URADAR.DEMOT.CUSTOMER.
  5. Right-click and select Enable.
  6. Click the Enabled tab, and then right-click and select Data Changer Properties.
  7. Verify URADAR.DEMOT.CUSTOMER is set as the Input Unload data store name and specify URADAR.DEMOT.MASK.new_library_name as the Output Unload data store name. For example: URADAR.DEMOT.MASK.SEQCUST.
  8. Click OK.
  9. Click the Enabled tab.
  10. Select the data store URADAR.DEMOT.CUSTOMER, right-click, and then click Open Selected Data Store.
  11. Expand the row for the SURNAME node.
  12. Click the SURNAME class, right-click, and then click Enable.
  13. Expand the row for the NAME node.
  14. Click the NAME class, right-click, and then click Enable.
  15. Continue to the next section.
Parent topic: Sequential Files Session