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XLS2DDF: IRI’s Spreadsheet Metadata Conversion Utility
This article is the third of four articles discussing newly added support for Excel files in the core IRI program for structured data definition and manipulation, SortCL. Read More
This article is the third of four articles discussing newly added support for Excel files in the core IRI program for structured data definition and manipulation, SortCL. Read More
This article is a continuation of the previous article, which introduced IRI support for XLS and XLSX file formats in the SortCL program used for moving and manipulating spreadsheet data in both the IRI Voracity data management (ETL, data quality, etc.) Read More
The names of IRI software products and how they run have at times been a source of mystery, or even confusion, to the uninitiated. This article spells out the pieces and clarifies their interplay, providing a quick primer for prospective users, partners, and new industry analysts. Read More
Automating where you can, when you can, is the basis of DevOps automation. Allowing IRI job script executions which mask or synthesize test data to be handled in the CI/CD pipeline supports this pursuit. Read More
IRI Workbench contains a section of field-level Data Generation Rules for use in IRI RowGen test data synthesis, FieldShield data masking, and other SortCL-compatible tasks or Voracity (ETL) work flows. Read More
There are times when it is necessary to test with or share data that has elements of personally identifiable information (PII). To comply with data privacy laws and prevent a data breach, you may need to provide data that reflects, and sometimes imparts, critical information, but still protects the PII. Read More
This article covers the creation and use of remote server connections from IRI Workbench so you can run CoSort (Voracity), NextForm, FieldShield, or RowGen scripts on other computers. Read More
Talend has been on the market for a few years now, and its flexible UI components make it a very reasonable choice for developers when it comes to customization. Read More
IRI Workbench not only has several ways to create jobs, but also several ways to execute them.
This article focuses on IRI Workbench execution options for scripts based on the SortCL program language, which covers IRI Voracity ETL, CDC, SDC, pivoting and subsetting jobs, as well as its constituent product jobs; i.e., Read More
Just as production data processing tools like IRI CoSort must handle big data in NoSQL DB environments, so too must a big test data generation tool like IRI RowGen. Read More