Step 3 - Repeater and Restartability stores

In the third step of the Wizard, Repeater and Restartability stores can be defined.

This screen has two functions and both represent an optional functionality of designing the data masking plan:

  1. Repeater store configuration
  2. Restartability store configuration
Table of contents
Repeater store configuration
Restartability store configuration
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Repeater store configuration

When at least once persisting repeater are used in Data masking plan, then that Masking plan must have a configured repeater store. *Repeaters are described here.

If persisting repeaters are used, that means the information about the repeater is saved as a list of values identified by name and they contain key and its belonging value. That information can be stored only in MSSQL databases.

Persisting repeaters can be turned on while creating Masking definition or in Step 2 of the Wizard, when configuring Generator options.

Information for repeater store configuration are:

  1. Enable repeater store configuration - Options:

    1. Yes – repeater store configuration is enabled. All other fields are enabled.

    2. No – repeater store configuration is disabled. Other fields are disabled.

  2. Data source - Displays all created MSSQL Data sources alphabetically. The user selects only one Data source.

  3. Environment - Displays all Environments of the selected Data source. The user selects only one Environment.

  4. Schema - Name of the Schema in which the information will be stored. Schema must exist but it doesn’t have to be imported.

  5. Table prefix - Prefix of table names created with persisting repeater. Each repeater will create new table with this prefix. Default value is "Repeater_".

    • Name restrictions:
      • First character can be a letter (a-z or A-Z) or underscore (_)
      • All characters after first can be a letter (a-z or A-Z), an underscore (_), dollar sign ($), hashtag (#) or at sign (@)
      • Max allowed length is 20 characters.

Step 3 - Repeater store configuration Figure 1: Step 3 - Repeater store configuration

Restartability store configuration

Restartability is not enabled by default and needs to be configured by defining the restartability store. More information about the restartability can be found here.

The restartability store is a table where the statuses of the masking units are going to be stored during the package execution.

Information for restartability store configuration are:

  1. Enable restartability store configuration - Options:

    1. Yes – restartability store configuration is enabled. All other fields are enabled.

    2. No – restartability store configuration is disabled. Other fields are disabled.

  2. Data source - Displays all created Data sources alphabetically. The user selects only one Data source.

  3. Environment - Displays all Environments of the selected Data source. The user selects only one Environment.

  4. Schema - Name of the Schema in which the information will be stored. Schema must exist but it doesn’t have to be imported.

  5. Table - Name of table created with restartability Default value is "Restartability".

    • Name restrictions:
      • First character can be a letter (a-z or A-Z) or underscore (_)
      • All characters after first can be a letter (a-z or A-Z), an underscore (_), dollar sign ($), hashtag (#) or at sign (@)
      • Max allowed length is 50 characters

Step 3 - Restartability store configuration Figure 2: Step 3 - Restartability store configuration

Continuing to the next step

Configuring the Repeater and/or Restartability store is not an obligatory action, so the user can continue to the next step of the Wizard without taking any action on this step.

To cancel the process of designing data masking plan, the user can click on the 'Cancel' button at any time.