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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction to Test Data Management
  3. Test Data Manager
  4. Projects
  5. Policies
  6. Data Discovery
  7. Creating a Data Subset
  8. Performing a Data Masking Operation
  9. Data Masking Techniques and Parameters
  10. Data Generation
  11. Data Generation Techniques and Parameters
  12. Working with Test Data Warehouse
  13. Analyzing Test Data with Data Coverage
  14. Plans and Workflows
  15. Monitor
  16. Reports
  17. ilmcmd
  18. tdwcmd
  19. tdwquery
  20. Appendix A: Data Type Reference
  21. Appendix B: Data Type Reference for Test Data Warehouse
  22. Appendix C: Data Type Reference for Hadoop
  23. Appendix D: Glossary

User Guide

User Guide

Assigning Single and Multiple Masking Rules

Assigning Single and Multiple Masking Rules

You can assign multiple masking rules to a column. To assign more than one rule to a column, create a duplicate row and update the rule. You can assign the default data domain rules to multiple columns at the same time. Assign a single masking rule or a policy or both to multiple columns of similar data type.
  1. Open the
    Define | Data Masking
    view for a project.
  2. Select a column that you want to assign the rule to. If you want to assign a rule to more than one column, you can select multiple columns.
    Use the checkbox to select the column.
  3. Click
    Rule Assignment
    .
    The
    Rule Assignments
    dialog box appears.
  4. Select the column that you want to assign multiple policies to.
    Use the checkbox to select the column.
  5. Click
    Copy Rule Assignment
    .
    The Test Data Manager creates a row that is a duplicate of the row you selected.
  6. Change the policy to view more preferred masking rules.
  7. In the
    Masking Rule
    column, select a rule from the list.
  8. Click
    Save
    .
    The
    Define | Data Masking
    view shows two rows for the same column. Each column has a different rule assignment.
  9. To assign the default rule to multiple columns, select which columns you want to update with the default values. You can select the checkbox at the top of the dialog box to select all rows.
  10. Click
    Default Assignments
    .
    The Test Data Manager updates each column with the default rule.
  11. Click
    Save
    .
  12. To assign a single rule to multiple columns, search for the similar data type columns.
  13. Select all the columns that you want to assign a masking rule to.
  14. Click
    Single Rule Assignment
    .
    The
    Single Rule Assignment
    dialog box appears.
  15. Select a policy and a masking rule.
    The following image shows the single masking rule assignment to multiple columns:
    The Single Rule Assignment dialog box shows the PCI Policy Pack policy and the Credit Card Numbers Rule masking rule assignment to all the credit card type columns.
  16. Click
    OK
    .
    The Test Data Manager updates each column with the assigned masking rule.

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