Creating a program

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Use IBM Data Risk Manager for creating a program to define and scope business information based on business areas, lines of business, applications, processes, and other organization business context metadata.

About this task

Consider the following factors to create programs and subprograms.
  • Any number of subprograms or child programs can be created for a parent program.
  • You can create a program as parent or a child program. By default, the program is created as a parent program. When the sub program option is selected, you must provide details of the parent program and save the sub program.
  • When details of a program are displayed on the program portfolio page, the subprograms information is also displayed.
  • When a parent program is selected, all its subprograms are also listed, if they are created.

Procedure

  1. Log on to IBM Data Risk Manager Application Suite (https://<IDRM-Server-IP-Address>:8443/albatross/a3suite).
  2. Click the application menu icon Application navigation icon.
  3. Go to Business Context Modeler > Home.
  4. On the Program Portfolio page, click the Add Program icon add program icon to create a program.
  5. Set the following options and click Save.
    Option Description
    Name Specify a name for the program.
    Owner Select a program owner from the list of users. To display the list, click the Add user icon icon.
    Description Specify the additional information that indicates purpose of the program that you are creating.
    Start Date Specify the start date of the program.
    End Date Specify the end date of the program.
  6. When the program is saved, the following message is displayed. Click Yes to assign a user, user group, and scope the program. 
    Program is saved successfully. Do you want to scope entitlements for the program?
  7. Assign users, user groups, and scope the program. Then, click Assign.
    1. To assign users, select the users under Users. The assigned users can access data that is discovered according to scope of the program.
    2. To assign user groups, select the groups under User Group.
    3. To scope the program, select the necessary business context entities under Scope. The business context entities are imported from various sources.
      You can assign the following business context entities.
      • Line of Business (LOB)
      • Application
      • Platform
      • Compliance
      • Environment
      • Resource
      • Data Source
      Note: If the business context entities are not selected, scope of the program includes all the available data sources. Program scope is set to all-inclusive by default.
  8. Click Evidence to create and associate an evidence with the program.