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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

Value Cascades

Value Cascades

Use a value cascade to mask similar columns in different tables with the same masking rules. Use a value cascade when the columns that you want to mask are not related by key constraints. Data masking returns the same values into each column. Configure a group of similar value columns to define a value cascade.
Configure value cascades as similar value columns and define one of the columns as the driving column. If you assign a rule to the driving column, Test Data Manager assigns the rule to all the columns in the group. For example, you configure employee_num column in one table and EmpID in another table as similar value columns. Define employee_num as the driving table. When you assign a data masking rule to employee_num, EmpID receives the same masking rule. The columns in a value cascade must be the same type.
When you view the columns in a project, a driving table shows a number in the
Similar Value Columns
column. The number indicates how many other columns are in the value cascade. The similar value columns do not show a number in the
Similar Value Columns
column.
You can view a list of the columns in a value cascade. Select the driving column in the content panel. Click the
Similar Value Columns
view in the details panel. A list of the similar value columns appears.
To configure value cascades for an XSD source, open the XSD file from the
Discover | Files
view within a project. Select the elements and attributes, and configure similar value columns.

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