This guide outlines the concepts and procedures used by the
Data Express Data Generation module, which uses user-specified selection criteria, rules, and data to create a new test environment from
scratch.
You begin with an existing but empty test environment. Then, use the Data Generation module to:
- Create rules that derive a test environment from the client side
- Populate job submissions derived from the client side
- Load tables via
the Distributed Loader for distributed data stores, or via
the external interface for z/OS data stores
- Define and associate selection classes
Use this process to generate a full test environment, or a partial test environment. A partial test environment typically
includes the applications not present in production. In this case, the remainder of the test environment comes from production
through Data Subset Extraction.