Publications

The following documentation is available for Data Express:

Data Masking Guide

This guide outlines the concepts and procedures used by the Data Masking module. Data Masking makes sensitive data anonymous in application test environments while maintaining the same characteristics as the original data.

Data Model Guide

This guide provides descriptions of the table structures used in the Data Builder, Data Masking, and Data Subset Extraction modules.

Data Subset Extraction Guide

This guide outlines the concepts and procedures used by the Data Subset Extraction module. Data Subset Extraction uses selection criteria specified by the user to create a new test environment from an existing environment.

Error Messages

This guide provides a detailed list of all warning, error, and informational messages that can be displayed in log files during batch processing or on the screen during elaboration processing.

Front End Guide

This guide outlines the concepts and procedures used by Data Express, a product that lets you analyze the database of a given application.

Getting Started with Distributed Data Stores

This guide contains explanatory information and a series of tutorials that show you how to start using Data Express. The tutorials introduce the major features in a number of short sessions, typically 10-30 minutes.

Getting Started with z/OS Data Stores

This guide contains explanatory information and a series of tutorials that show you how to start using Data Express in order to analyze and manage data stores from System z servers running z/OS. The tutorials introduce the major features in a number of short sessions, typically 10-30 minutes.

Installation Guide

This guide outlines the concepts and procedures needed to install Data Express.

Life Cycle Guide

This guide provides step-by-step instructions to help you handle modifications within the layout of the files already processed by Data Express.

Process for z/OS Guide

This guide outlines the concepts and procedures used by Data Express for z/OS. It shows how to start and work with Data Express in the mainframe environment.

Readme

Contains general information on the product including hardware and software requirements, backward compatibility, and known errors and restrictions.

z/OS Toolkit Guide

This guide outlines the concepts and procedures used by the Data Express Toolkit, which is a collection of utilities that help provide input to Data Express processes in order to automate data inventory functionality. It shows how to start and work with the Toolkit in a mainframe environment.