Datamaker™ for Mainframe is the complete end-to-end test data management solution for DB2, IMS, ADABAS, VSAM and ISAM data sources. Based on the concept of a central Test Data Warehouse, Datamaker™ provides an innovative, modular solution for designing, finding, making and provisioning ‘fit for purpose’ to the ‘right place’, at the ‘right time’.
The value of Datamaker™ goes far beyond traditional subset-and-mask solutions. The reason is that production data typically only provides 20-30% of the functional coverage required to thoroughly test your application. Instead, Datamaker™ offers users the ability to design, find, make and provision data that is ‘fit for purpose’ – that is compliant, realistic and provides 100% functional coverage in the minimal optimal volume of data – to ensure high quality, efficient testing and accelerate the delivery of valuable, quality software.
In combination with our Data Profiler™ solution, Datamaker™ allows you to fully analyse your existing data to understand the gaps in your coverage and how the data is related. This enables you to find out exactly what data you need to satisfy your tests cases. However, in many cases, finding or manually making this data can take as much as 70% of developers and testers time.
Datamaker™ contains a powerful Test Matching module, which acts as a search engine for the data, allowing users to match data from disparate systems (Mainframe, databases and flat files) across the entire enterprise to specific test criteria. This eliminates the need to manually search for data, accelerating your data provision. However, in many cases, the data you need doesn’t exist or is not of sufficient quality for rigorous testing.
Datamaker™ enables you to enhance the quality of your data using synthetic data creation. Based on your existing data model, Datamaker™ takes a picture of how your data is related, and then creates new, synthetic data containing all the characteristics of production with none of the sensitive content. The result is smaller, rich, sophisticated sets of data which meet compliance with all major data protection standards, such as HIPAA, GLBA, PCI-DSS, PIPEDA and the EU Data Protection Directive. The value here is that you can make exactly the data you need, rather than having to make do with production data, in smaller volumes.
The final piece of the puzzle is the concept of a Test Data Warehouse; a central location for storing, managing, enhancing and sharing ‘fit for purpose’ data across the entire enterprise. Storing and managing your data in a Test Data Warehouse simplifies communication between teams, removing ambiguities and ensures that teams receive the ‘right data’. Storing the data in a central location also allows you to deliver ‘fit for purpose’ data to multiple teams, in parallel, bypassing cross-system dependencies and eliminating bottlenecks in testing. The Test Data Warehouse also provides powerful version control, and enables you to re-use the same core data across multiple projects and teams, allowing you to maximise the value of the data, test fully earlier in the development lifecycle and deliver high quality software earlier.
Using Datamaker™ allows you to:
· Significantly reduce infrastructure and storage costs by as much as 50k per database
· Design perfect test coverage with the minimal optimal number of tests
· Find the data you need from across the enterprise
· Make secure, smaller, realistic sets of high quality data for development and testing
· Provision high quality data to multiple teams, in parallel, to accelerate test cycles