Writer instructions

Purpose

Use this page to display a banner announcement on each page of the space. Create the Space announcements page in the master space, outside of the Home branch.

You can version the Space announcements page to enable different banners to be published into different target spaces, however, the banner that is displayed in the versioned (master) space itself only displays the most recently-published banner.  If you find errors in the banner area of your versioned space and you are sure the Space announcements page is set up correctly, try publishing the page to the same space.

For more information, see Space-announcements-banners.

Removing

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Translation

Localized spaces using the L10n Viewport theme must change the name of this page to Space announcements l10n.  See Configuring-the-Scroll-ViewPort-theme-for-translated-spaces.

Usage

Choose one or none of the following BMC Space Banner macros.

If your space requires another kind of announcement, you can use this page in coordination with your team lead and editors.

When should I use a space announcement banner?

Use the space organization announcement after you change the content from a book-like organization (such as User Manual, Configuration Manual, and Administration Guide) to the product model.

Use the latest version announcement to push traffic to later versions. You do not need to add this to every previous version, but if you have a specific reason that you want users to be aware—for example, Google searches show content for an obsolete version—use the banner to help users find a relevant version.

When an announcement is no longer needed, remove the BMC Space Banner macro.

Space announcement This documentation space provides the same content as before, but the organization of the content has changed. The content is now organized based on logical branches instead of legacy book titles. We hope that the new structure will help you quickly find the content that you need.

Step 1—Allocating the data disguise control file

File-AID/RDX displays the following figure when you select Option 5, Data Privacy, from the File-AID/RDX Primary Option Menu.

Important

You may skip this step if the Disguise Control and Disguise Criteria files you want to use already exist.

Data Privacy Menu

 File-AID/RDX ----------------- Data Privacy Menu  -----------------------------
 Option ===> 4                                                 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 

To allocate a Data Disguise Control File:

In this field…

Do the following:

Command

Type 4 to select Allocate Disguise Control File.

Press Enter

File-AID/RDX displays the Allocate Disguise Control File screen.

Field Names and Descriptions

You can select the following options from the Data Privacy Menu.

OPTION

DESCRIPTION

P - Privacy

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

This option requires installation of Compuware’s BMC Compuware File-AID/Data Solutions Release 4.5 or more recent and BMC Compuware File-AID Data Privacy.

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. Displays the “Extract Reference List for Disguise” so you can build the list of objects you want to define or modify disguise criteria for.

Before selecting this option make sure that you have set the correct BMC Compuware 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 the “File-AID/RDX Utilities”.

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 or the DPR: Dynamic Privacy Rules Project. File-AID/RDX displays the Disguise Extract File panel.

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 can be compressed, and can also be a retained, masked extract 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; the validation utility can be used to update the Disguise Control File.

3 - Parms

Select this option to specify BMC Compuware File-AID/Data Solutions parameters that are necessary for File-AID/RDX to properly connect to BMC Compuware File-AID/Data Solutions, including:

  • The Disguise Criteria File where BMC Compuware File-AID/Data Solutions will store the actual disguise criteria.
  • The Business Rules dataset BMC Compuware File-AID/Data Solutions uses when operating on date fields; it can also be used by field exits.

4 - Control

Displays the Allocate Disguise Control File screen where you can allocate a new disguise control file. The File-AID/RDX disguise control file is the repository that keeps track of all defined disguise criteria for File-AID/RDX extracts.

5 - Criteria

Displays the Allocate Disguise Criteria File screen where you can allocate a new disguise criteria file. This file is maintained by BMC Compuware 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” screen where you specify to print the contents of the disguise control file.

A - Audit Trail

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

Related topics

Data-Privacy-function

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