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• IRI Workbench
• Data Discovery
• Data Integration
• Data & Database Migration
• Data Governance
• Analytics & BI

Self-Directed Learning Site for IRI Software

This page links you to free, self-help content in the many data management objectives that IRI software products can help you achieve.

Please note that:

1. All IRI software users, from freemium to licensed subscribers, can access this material.  Only supported users, however, can get help from IRI beyond this content.
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IRI Product Installation

• All IRI Workbench & SortCL-Compatible Software
  • CoSort v10 Upgrade Advice​
  • IRI CellShield PE & EE V2 
  • SQL# & JDBC SQL Trail Proxy DDM (pending)
  • Updating IRI Workbench
• IRI Workbench Demo Projects in Git
• Connecting to RDBs (via O/JDBC)
  • HIVE (article pending)
  • IBM DB2
  • Informix
  • MS Access (article pending)
  • ​MS SQL
  • MySQL
  • ​Oracle
  • PostgreSQL
  • Salesforce
  • Snowflake
  • Teradata
• Connection Registry
• DSN Files
• Multi-Table Filtering​
• Connecting to NoSQL DBs
  • Cassandra
    • using Flat (CSV) File Import/Export
    • using Native Driver, All Collections
  • Elasticsearch
  • MarkLogic
  • MongoDB
    • for FieldShield (Flat Collections)
      • using Flat File Import/Export
      • using ODBC Driver, Flat Collections
      • using Native Driver, Flat Collections
    • for DarkShield (All Collections)
       

IRI Workbench - General

• Getting Started
• Job Design Methods
  1. New Job Wizards (see Welcome > First Steps)
  2. Dialogs (use ? for in-context Help)
  3. Script Editor & Outline (see product manuals for syntax)
  4. Mapping Diagrams (see Work Flow from the Palette below)
  5. erwin Mapping Manager
  6. Java apps via Gulfstream API
• Flow Design (how-to articles for Voracity ETL and other batch jobs)
  • Creating a Work Flow Using Existing Job (SortCL, etc.) Scripts (3 parts)
  • Creating a Work Flow from a Wizard (2 parts)
  • Creating a Work Flow from the Palette (2 parts)
    • Video: Work Flow (Palette)
  • Creating & Executing SQL Statements
• Job Deployment
  • Command Line / Wicked Shell
  • Single Job Execution Options
  • Batch Job (Work Flow) Execution Options
  • Remote Connection/Executions
  • Running Voracity Jobs in Hadoop
    • ​When to Use Hadoop
      • Connecting to HortonWorks/Ambari
      • Connecting to Cloudera
      • Connecting to MapR
  • Running Voracity Jobs with KNIME
  • Cloud Considerations (pending)
    • Amazon EC2 
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    • MS Azure 
    • Google Cloud
• Job Scheduling
  • IRI Workbench Task Launcher
    • Eclipse Launch Configurations
    • Launch Configuration Groups
  • Oracle Job Scheduler
  • Stonebranch UAC

Data Discovery & Classification

• DB Profiling (includes 1+ table searching)
  • ER Diagramming
  • Multi-Table Filtering
  • Displaying Profiling Results in Splunk
• Flat-File Profiling
• NoSQL DB Data Class Search (and Mask)
• Structured Metadata Discovery
• IRI Metadata Search (via Git)
• Structured (DB & Flat-File) Data Classification
  • Video: Data Classification Setup 
  • Data Class Validation and Customization
  • Video: Data Class Modification (Library Editing)
• Directory Data Class Search (structured files)
• Schema Data Class Search (all tables in 1 or more RDB schema)
  • Video: Schema Data Class Search Wizard
• Schema-wide Pattern Search (all tables in an RDB schema)
  • Video: Schema Pattern Search Wizard
  • Schema Pattern Search to Data Class Association
• Unstructured File Search, Extract, Structure & Profile (text, documents, images, faces)
  •  Video: Dark Data Data Classification & Discovery
  • Video: Named Entity Recognition (NER) / NLP Searches via Machine Learning

Data Integration

• Data Integration Architectures (and Voracity DI paradigms)
  • Enterprise Data Warehouse 
  • Logical Data Warehouse
  • Operational Data Store / Enterprise Data Hub
  • Production Analytic Platform (4-part series)
  • Data Lake
  • ETL vs. ELT
• ETL Job Design (see IRI Workbench > Flow Design above)
• ETL Execution (see IRI Workbench > Job Deployment above)
• Faster Extraction
• Data Transformation
  • Date Masking
  • Filtering
  • Video: Sort/Join/Aggregate
  • Video: Inner Join
  • Video: Left Outer Join
  • Video: Sort
    • z/OS MVS & VSE JCL (ICEMAN) conversions
    • Links to other plug'n'play sort replacements
    • CoSort v10 Best Practices
  • Video: Summary Aggregation
  • Row-Column Pivoting
  • Set Lookups
• Fast Loading
• Change Data Capture
• Slowly Changing Dimensions
• DB-Specific Optimization (see tabs)
• Video: Voracity ETL Workflow (wizard mode; see Flow Design above)
  • Oracle to MongoDB Example
• Voracity ETL Job Preview (via live or test data)
• Legacy ETL Optimization
  • ​Accelerating Informatica
  • Accelerating DataStage
  • Accelerating Pentaho
  • Accelerating Talend
• Legacy ETL Tool Migration (via erwin Smart Connector)
  • Re-platforming Informatica

Data & Database Migration

• File-Format Conversion
• Database Migration
• Database Subsetting
• Basic Data Replication
• Incremental Data Replication
  • Incremental Changes, Oracle to MongoDB
• Data Federation
• Schema (Relational to Star) Migration
• Vision File Conversion
• XML (Complex) Parse/Process

Data Governance

• Data Masking
  • Dynamic Data Masking (DDM)
    • IRI FieldShield in DB Apps
    • Triggered FieldShield functions in PL/SQL
    • Proxy-based JDBC SQL Trail driver
    • Dynamic decryption of encrypted production data
    • .NET and Java (Hadoop) API libraries 
      • FieldShield ("Sandkey") SDK
  • Static Data Masking (SDM)
    • Which IRI Data Masking Product Should I Use?
    • Getting Started with FieldShield
      • Video: Single Table / File Masking demo
    • Which Data Masking Function Should I Use?
      • Blurring (Random Noise)
      • Bucketing (Generalization)
      • Deletion (GDPR Erasure)
      • Encryption
        • FieldShield Key Management in Azure Key Vault
        • FieldShield Key Management in Townsend Alliance Key Manager
      • Hashing
      • Pseudonymization
      • Redaction
      • Tokenization
    • Multi-Table RDB Masking (with Referential Integrity)
      • Rule-based using like-named columns only
        • Video: Multi-table masking demo (2020)
        • Video: Multi-table masking demo (2016)
      • Rule-based using data classes (better)
        • Video Series: Multi-table masking tutorials (2020)
          • ​​Data Classification & Discovery (see links above)
          • Applying masking rules to classified data
            • Video: Assigning masking rules
          • Data Class DB Masking Wizard
            • Video: Data Class DB Masking Wizard (2020)
            • ​ Video: Data classification & masking demo (2018)
    • Multi-Flat-File Masking (in 1 or more directories)
      • Data Class File Masking
    • ​Applying Field Rules Using Classification
    • Structured & Semi-Structured Data Sources
      • Amazon S3 file buckets via DarkShield
      • Apache Cassandra
        • Structured or unstructured collections via DarkShield
        • Structured collections (only) via FieldShield
      • CSV Files
      • Dates & Ages
      • Elasticsearch via DarkShield
      • Excel Spreadsheets
        • via CellShield Personal Edition (PE)
        • via CellShield Enterprise Edition (EE)
          • See v2 Release Information above
        •  Video: via DarkShield
        • via FieldShield (pending)
      • HL7 (or see X12 via DarkShield, below)
      • JSON & XML Files via DarkShield path filtering
      • Live Feeds
      • MongoDB
        • Structured collections via Ex/Import 
        • Structured collections via J/ODBC
        • Structured collections via Native Driver
        • Structured & semi-/unstructured collections via DarkShield
      • NIDs & SSNs
      • NRIC
      • Oracle & other RDBs
        • via FieldShield (for structured/1NF columns only, with classification & search)
        • via DarkShield (with structured & unstructured - C/BLOB, XML, text - columns)
      • Pentaho
      • PostgreSQL
      • SAP HANA (subset and mask)
      • Salesforce
      • Snowflake DB
      • Splunk
      • Web Logs
      •  Video: X12 via DarkShield 
  • Re-ID Risk Determination (for HIPAA Expert Determination Method security rule)
    •  Video: Risk Scoring Wizard &  Quasi-Identifier Anonymization
    • HIPAA Data Certification Course
  • Unstructured (Dark) Data Masking
    • Getting Started with DarkShield
    • Finding and Masking PII in Text/EDI files, Documents & Images
      • Video: DarkShield Search/Mask How-to
      • Video: DarkShield NER/ML How-to & FAQ
    • DarkShield CLI SDK
    • DarkShield RPC API
    • Analyzing DarkShield Search/Mask Results in Splunk
    • Universal Forwarder (sending search/mask logs to Splunk)
    • Adaptive Response to log events in Splunk ES
    • Invoking DarkShield from a Splunk Phantom Playbook 
• Data Quality
  • Data Quality Rule Wizards
  • Filter & De-Duplication
  • Fuzzy Searching
  • Data Validation
  • Data Unification (Homogenization, Reconciliation)
  • Finding Business Rule Violations
  • Finding Format Errors
• Master Data Management (MDM)
  • MD Consolidation
  • MDM Registry (pending)
  • Alternative (via GIT)
• Metadata Management
  • Teamwork (via GIT)
    • Version Control
    • Lineage (via Git)
    • Lineage & Impact Analysis (via Erwin/ADS)
    • Data & Metadata Lineage (built-in, pending)
    • Asset Security (via Git)
• Role Based Access Controls (RBAC)
  • AD-compatible IAM (pending)
• Test Data Management (TDM)
  • Goal Setting & Team Building
  • Test Data Needs Assessment
  • Test Data Generation & Provisioning
  • Test Data Sharing & Persistence
• Test (Synthetic) Data Generation, for:
  • RDBs via data masking (see SDM above)
  • RDBs via auto-parse/populate/generate (synthesis)
  • RDBs via masked table subsets (DB subsetting)
  • Single files via the job wizard
  • Specific formats or data classes
    • COBOL files
    • Customer (transaction) data
    • Personally Identifiable Information (PII) (fake PII for DevOps)
    • Credit Card Numbers
    • NIDs (US & Korea SSNs, Italy CF, Netherlands BSN)
    • UUIDs/GUIDs
    • Cassandra
    • MongoDB
    • Teradata
  • Weighted distributions
  • Java & Hadoop (API)
    • RowGen ("Outrigger") SDK

Analytics & BI

• Production Analytic Platform (4-part series)
• Embedded BI
  • see report examples in CoSort manual (SortCL program)
• IoT: Aggregation on the Edge
  • Video: IoT Edge Aggregation demo
• Change Data Capture
• Slowly Changing Dimensions
• Predictive Analytics
• Clickstream Analytics
• BIRT integration
• Datadog Integration
• Splunk Integrations
  • Voracity add-on for Splunk
  • Voracity app for Splunk (Splunkbase download)
  • Voracity results in Splunk via Universal Forwarder
• Data Wrangling for Other BI & Analytic Tools
  • for Cubeware (pending)
  • for DWDigest
  • for IBM Cognos
  • for Microsoft Power BI
  • for Oracle Visualization Desktop
  • for KNIME