TDM DB - General Parameters

The TDM DB tdm_general_parameters table holds the name of each parameter (param_name) and its value (param_value). The following categories of parameters are populated in this table:

TDM VERSION

The TDM_VERSION parameter is populated with the TDM version that is displayed in the TDM portal.

TDM Cleanup Parameters

The cleanup parameters are automatically created in tdm_general_parameters by TDM DB creation scripts:

• The cleanup_retention_period defines the number of months of the retention period for inactive records. The cleanup process deletes inactive records that are older than the retention period; the default period is set to 1 week (0.25 months).

LUI Separator Parameters

• To create different LUIs per environment and per data version, the TDM concatenates additional identifiers to each IID: environment name (for all tasks) and version identifier for Data Versioning tasks. By default, the LUI parts are separated by an underscore, e.g., ENV1_45773.

• However, if the source entity ID already contains an underscore, another separator must be set on the LUI. Insert a new record to the tdm_general_parameters table in order to set an LUI separator that is different from the defaultive (underscore) value.

• The param_name of the LUI separator is iid_separator.

• The param_value must be populated by a String set as a separator.

  Note that the iid_separator setting impacts all LUs in the project.

  Example:

  Insert the following record to the tdm_general_parameters table to set the separator to @ :

  insert into tdm_general_parameters (param_name, param_value) values ('iid_separator', '@');

If the source Customer ID is 123_4 and the environment is ENV1, the LUI is set as ENV1@123_4. This way, the TDM process can parse the LUI correctly and get the correct Customer ID.

Maximum Reservation Period for Testers

An admin user of the environment owner can reserve entities for an unlimited period of time. However, a tester user is limited and can only set a retention period that does not exceed the maximum retention period defined in the TDM DB.

The maximum number of days for the entity reservation is set in the MAX_RESERVATION_DAYS_FOR_TESTER parameter; the default value is 90 (90 days).

Maximum Retention Period for Testers

The maximum number of days that a tester can set to a retention period in the task is defined in the MAX_RETENTION_DAYS_FOR_TESTER parameter; the default value is 90 (90 days). Note that the validation is not set if the user sets the retention period to Do not Delete.

Data Generation Parameters

• The TABLE_DEFAULT_DISTRIBUTION_MIN and TABLE_DEFAULT_DISTRIBUTION_MAX parameters set the default range for the number of generated records, populated in the LU table for each parent ID by a data generation task. By default, these parameters are populated with 1 and 3, i.e., the data generation task generates 1-3 records for the LU tables except for the main source LU table that is created with only one record by the data generation task.

• Edit these parameters, if needed, in order to set a different number range of records for synthetically generated entities.

  Click here for more information about the data generation implementation.

Parameter Coupling Mode

TDM 9.1 has added a new capability - parameters coupling. The TDM can work either with the regular mode of parameters or with the new mode of parameter coupling.

The parameters' handling mode in set in the TDM_GENERAL_PARAMETERS in the PARAMS_COUPLING parameter name. The default value of this parameter is false. If you wish to work with the parameters coupling mode, update this parameter:

update tdm_general_parameters
set param_value=true
where param_name='PARAMS_COUPLING';

Display of Parameters' Name in the Task - ADD_LU_NAME_TO_PARAM_NAME

TDM 9.2 and onwards enables removing the concatenation of the LU name to the parameters' name when selecting business parameters in a task. The display of business parameters' names is configurable. The following configuration parameter has been added to the tdm_general_parameters table:

• Parameter name: ADD_LU_NAME_TO_PARAM_NAME.
• By default, this parameter is false. Set this parameter to true in order to keep both the previous TDM versions' behavior and the LU name's concatenation to the business parameters' names in the task.

TDM Portal General Parameters

• The TDM portal param_name is tdm_gui_params. The value of this parameter includes a list of the following parameters:

  • retentionDefaultPeriod - default retention period of the LUIs on extract or extract and load tasks; the default value is Do Not Delete.

  • reservationDefaultPeriod - default reservation period for an entity reservation.

  • versioningRetentionPeriod and versioningRetentionPeriodForTesters - default retention period on extract with data versioning tasks; the default value is 5 days ("unit":"Days","value":5).

  • permissionGroups - list of the TDM permission groups. The following options are currently supported: admin, owner and tester.

  • retentionPeriodTypes and reservationPeriodTypes - these are the available options for the retention and reservation periods.

  Update the TDM_GENERAL_PARAMETERS to Support Fabric Storage without a TTL

  TDM enables setting a retention period (TTL) on the TDM tasks in order to save the task's entities in Fabric only for a limited period of time. However, if the Fabric storage does not support a TTL for the LUIs (such as PG DB), the TDM needs to limit the TDM task’s retention period options to either Do not Delete or Do not Retain.

  Run the following UPDATE statements in the TDM DB to update the retentionPeriodTypes, versioningRetentionPeriod, and versioningRetentionPeriodForTesters attributes. This is needed to enable setting only Do not Delete or Do not Retain values in the TDM task's retention period.

  UPDATE 
     tdm_general_parameters
  SET 
     param_value = REPLACE(param_value,'"retentionPeriodTypes":[{"name":"Minutes","units":0.00069444444},{"name":"Hours","units":0.04166666666},{"name":"Days","units":1},{"name":"Weeks","units":7},{"name":"Years","units":365}]', '"retentionPeriodTypes":[]')  
  where param_name = 'tdm_gui_params'; 
  
  UPDATE 
     tdm_general_parameters
  SET 
     param_value = REPLACE(param_value, '"versioningRetentionPeriod":{"units":"Days","value":5,"allow_doNotDelete":True}',  '"versioningRetentionPeriod":{"units":"Do Not Delete","value":-1,"allow_doNotDelete":True}')
    where param_name = 'tdm_gui_params'; 
  
   UPDATE 
     tdm_general_parameters
  SET 
     param_value = REPLACE(param_value, '"versioningRetentionPeriodForTesters":"versioningRetentionPeriodForTesters":{"units":"Days","value":5,"allow_doNotDelete":False}',  '"versioningRetentionPeriodForTesters":{"units":"Do Not Delete","value":-1,"allow_doNotDelete":True}')
    where param_name = 'tdm_gui_params';