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Detailed Description

Service Identifier: AFF

The Optim Data Privacy Provider suite includes Service Providers for masking data that adheres to well-known formats (e.g. United States SSN, Email addresses). This Service Provider provides data masking of undifferentiated or dynamically-formatted values. For unique inputs, a unique, repeatable output is generated. For non-unique inputs, it is possible to generate a different output for each occurance of the non-unique input. It is also possible to generate output values with a length longer than the input values.

In Affinity, the format of the input value controls the output format; that is, the output character type matches the input character type. For example, input Ab-12 might produce output Xr-86; that is, the upper and lower-case alpha, numeric and special characters in the output follow the template defined by the input.

The following are examples of numeric, alpha and mixed input possibilities:

Unlike an undifferentiated value, a dynamically-formatted value has one or more portions that have significance and cannot be altered without affecting the validity of the value (in the examples above, the "12", "ItemCode" and "CDE" portions are sample inventory code designations and only the remaining portion should be obfuscated). The Affinity Service Provider has provision to specify which portion(s) of the input should be copied unchanged to the output (special characters are always copied).

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The following changes are applicable to Optim v11.7.0.0 and beyond:


The following Common Parameters are applicable to the Affinity Service Provider:



The following Service Provider Information Requests are applicable to the Affinity Service Provider:



Data Types

The Affinity Service Provider supports the following data types for the source and destination columns if parameter ODPP_OPR_COL_BINARY is NOT specified:

If parameter ODPP_OPR_COL_BINARY is specified, then only the following data types are supported for the source and destination columns: