The Distributed Exporter utility is accessible from both Data Masking and Data Subset Extraction.
Its role is reasonably straight-forward; it creates and provides necessary information to the Extension Technology so that
actual masking and subsetting of your distributed data store can occur.
There are two areas of interest when it comes to using the Distributed Exporter with distributed data stores:
- If you use ODBC-enabled data stores, you can mask and subset across all your data stores with one invocation of the ODBC
Extension. This feature is not available with the Oracle Extension.
- You also have the ability to subset and mask within one distributed data store, as long as a distinct target schema name is
provided.
For both Data Masking and Data Subset Extraction, the information you need to provide are very similar. For both scenarios
you need to provide:
- your workspace (machine ID and company)
- your source and target distributed data store credentials
- directory where the output files for the Extension Technology should be placed
For Data Subset Extraction, you can only export one method at a time by design.