Using the RowGen Test Data Job Wizard
Unlike the New DB Test Data Job wizard for creating multiple, related test tables, the New Test Data Job wizard in the IRI Workbench GUI for RowGen generates individual test sets. Read More
Generating Test Client Data
IRI RowGen software creates test data you can customize to meet specific needs. It supports the formats and techniques that make your test sets as realistic as you want them to be. Read More
Test Data Functions in Java: The IRI RowGen SDK
IRI has completed its first Software Development Kit (SDK) for RowGen that Java programmers can call to generate test data dynamically in applications or across Hadoop nodes. Read More
Database Subsetting – How to in IRI Voracity
Once a database exceeds a certain size, it becomes expensive — and risky from a security perspective — to provide full-size copies for development, testing, and training. Read More
ETL Task Testing with the IRI Voracity Preview Feature
During the design of IRI Voracity workflows in the IRI Workbench (Eclipse) GUI, you can preview the results of one or more transforms before saving or running the project. Read More
ER Diagrams in IRI Workbench
The Entity-Relationship Diagram (ERD), or entity relationship model, is a visual depiction of database tables (entities) and how they are linked through primary and foreign keys (relationships) to each other. Read More
How to Generate DB Test Data
IRI RowGen users can generate structurally and referentially correct synthetic test data for an entire database in a single operation. The test data reflects production characteristics (such as values ranges and frequencies) normally encountered in database or ETL operations, but does not require access to, or the masking of, real data. Read More
Drawing Values from Set Files
This article looks at sets from an informational processing perspective; what they are; how they are constructed; and, distinct ways in which data can be drawn from sets within IRI software products using the SortCL data definition and processing program; i.e., Read More
UUID Support in IRI Products
A universally unique identifier, or UUID, is an identifier standard used in software construction and data processing. The main function of the UUID is to be a unique identifier in registries, databases, or larger data stores like a data warehouse. Read More
Creating COBOL Test Data in RowGen
This article explains how to use IRI RowGen to create test files for prototyping COBOL applications running on, or off, the mainframe.
RowGen generates synthetic test data for file, database, and custom report targets. Read More
Testing and Masking Singapore NRICs
Singapore NRICs are used in much the same way Social Security numbers are used in the United States. The Singapore NRIC identifies citizens, permanent residents, or any other person who has entered the country for an extended stay on visa. Read More