Front End Guide

The guide provides step-by-step instructions to help you analyze and handle modifications of the data within the data sets and data stores of the applications running in your environment. With Data Express, you can verify the integrity of data within databases of applications that are either developed internally or purchased by external suppliers.

The scope of Data Express is to allow users to consult and maintain the Knowledge Base obtained to be able to analyze their own databases with a simple user interface which highlights:

• Copybooks associated with the data store (Data Express for z/OS only.)
• The corresponding record layout
• The distribution of values in the data elements

Data Express contains the following elements:

• Setup processing in the mainframe environment that automatically identifies data-store traces.
• An engine in the mainframe environment that submits jobs for file analysis and sampling functions. This respectively allows you to verify and evaluate the integrity of data (or the jobs of other functions), such as the data masking and test environment creation functions. (Data Express for z/OS only.)
• The evaluation of results using Data Express on a PC.

This guide provides the product configuration procedures and indicates the steps required to analyze the data stores that make up your application.