Data privacy menu

Selecting Option 5, Data Privacy, from the File-AID/RDX Primary Option Menu displays the Data Privacy Menu as shown in the following figure.

If Dynamic Privacy Rules have been defined with the Data Studio’s Data Privacy component of the Data Studio, you can disguise extracted data by specifying the Dynamic Privacy Rules Project.

Alternatively, you can define disguise criteria from within File-AID/RDX for the objects containing sensitive data that you intend to extract and store the disguise information in the Disguise Control File (DCF).

You can also disguise existing extracts which were created with this or earlier releases of File-AID/RDX using the disguise information stored in the Disguise Control File (DCF).

Important

For your initial disguise access, you must specify the File-AID/Data Solutions parameters with Option 3, Parms, before selecting options 1 or 2.

The Data Privacy Menu also includes Data Privacy utilities that allow you to:

Create Disguise Control File (DCF)
Create Disguise Criteria File
Print Disguise Control File
Print Disguise Audit Trail File

Data Privacy Menu

File-AID/RDX ----------------- Data Privacy Menu -----------------------------
Option ===>                                                   Profile: RDXMENU

Primary commands: menu-option

Dynamic Privacy Rules Options:
    P Privacy        - DPR: Disguise Existing Extract File

Data Disguise with DCF Options:
Disguise Control File ===> 'TSOID01.FRSAMP.DISGUISE'
    1 Criteria       - Create and Modify DCF Disguise Criteria
    2 Disguise       - DCF: Disguise Existing Extract File
    3 Parms          - File-AID/Data Solutions Parameters
    4 Control        - Allocate Disguise Control File
    5 Criteria       - Allocate Disguise Criteria File
    6 Validate       - Validate/Update Disguise Control File
    7 Print Control - Print Disguise Control File

Audit Trail Options:
    A Print Audit    - Print Disguise Audit Trail

The top of this screen consists of the following field:

USER Profile or SITE Profile

Displays the name of the current profile that provides the profile settings for this disguise extract request. To change the profile, return to the File-AID/RDX Primary Option Menu.

Data Privacy Menu Options

Enter the option number (1 through 7) or letter (P or A) to select the desired option.

Dynamic Privacy Rules Options

This section provides information about the following field:

P - Privacy

Select this option to disguise an existing extract file and apply the disguise criteria rules as defined in the Data Studio’s Data Privacy DPR: Dynamic Privacy Rules Project. File-AID/RDX displays the DPR: Disguise Existing Extract panel.

This option requires installation of File-AID/Data Solutions and Data Studio’s Data Privacy.

Data Disguise with DCF Options

The following options allow you to create data disguise criteria, apply the defined disguise criteria to extracted data, and execute data disguise utilities.

Disguise Control File

Specify the name of the file that contains a list of objects that have related, associated, or unrelated disguise criteria defined. File-AID/RDX then uses the information from the control file to apply the disguise criteria when disguising an extract. If you specify a pattern, select a file from the “Catalog Utility File List” (see MVS Catalog Utility File List (for Pattern FR*.ORDERTAB)).

If the file does not exist, use Option 4, Allocate Disguise Control File of the Data Privacy Menu to allocate a new file (see Allocate Disguise Control File).

1 - Criteria

Select this option when you want to define or modify disguise criteria for objects to be extracted and disguised. Creating a list of objects is always the first step in creating or modifying disguise criteria. Use of the object list as the starting point for criteria creation is based on thinking that criteria will be created for a specific set of objects and having the ability to view these objects together would be helpful. An object list may contain both Db2 and MVS objects. Your current profile variable determines which panel displays next, either the Extract Reference List for Disguise, Request File Member List Screen, NEW - Db2 Object Filter, or NEW - MVS Object Filter.

Important

Before selecting this option make sure that you have set the correct File-AID/Data Solutions parameters with Option 3, Parms, and that the Disguise Control and Disguise Criteria files already exist. To allocate new Disguise Control and Disguise Criteria files, use options 4- Control and 5- Criteria.

2 - Disguise

Select this option to disguise an existing extract file and apply the disguise criteria rules as defined in the DCF: Disguise Control File. File-AID/RDX displays the Disguise Extract File panel DCF: Disguise Existing Extract.

This option also allows you to disguise extract files that were created with an earlier version of File-AID/RDX if you are using disguise criteria rules defined in the Disguise Control File (DCF). The extract file must can be compressed (see also Compress), and can be a retained extract file (see also Retain pre-disguise file).

It is possible to use a Disguise Control File with different Relationship Files as long as the set of related objects being disguised has not changed. If there have been changes to the set of related objects, the disguise rules will not be applied to any added relationships. No error checking will be done at disguise execution time.

3 - Parms

Select this option to specify File-AID/Data Solutions parameters that File-AID/RDX uses to properly connect to File-AID/Data Solutions, including:

- The Disguise Criteria File where File-AID/Data Solutions will store the actual disguise criteria (necessary).
- The Dynamic Privacy Rules Project Name and Repository where Data Studio’s Data Privacy will store the actual privacy rules.
- The Business Rules dataset File-AID/Data Solutions uses when operating on date fields; it can also be used by field exits (optional, only needed when applying business rules).

Options 4 through 7 are data disguise file utilities. Enter the option number to select the desired utility:

4- Control

Displays the Allocate Disguise Control File panel where you can allocate a new Disguise Control File (DCF). The File-AID/RDX disguise control file is required for the data disguise function and is the repository that keeps track of all defined disguise criteria for each object.

5- Criteria

Displays the Allocate Disguise Criteria File panel where you can allocate a new Disguise Criteria File. This file is maintained by File-AID/Data Solutions and is the repository for all detailed disguise criteria for File-AID/RDX extracts.

6- Validate

The Validate/Update Disguise Control File utility is no longer supported.

7 - Print Control

Displays the Print Disguise Control File panel where you specify to print the contents of the disguise control file.

Audit Trail Options

When a disguise job using either disguise method (DPR or DCF) also created an audit trail for each disguised object, you can print the audit trail reports.

A - Print Audit

Displays the Print Disguise Audit Trail panel where you specify to print the disguise audit trail information for a disguised object.