Performing a global replace throughout the TRIRIGA system

You can use the Data Utility Erasure tool to replace a string throughout the entire IBM® TRIRIGA® system.

1. Go to Tools > System Setup > System > Data Erasure Utility to open the tool.
2. Click to open the Data Erasure Utility record that contains the search you want to replace.
3. On the Global tab, you can view the criteria for the search and for the replace, as well as the search results. When you are sure that the criteria are correct, click Replace to replace the search string anywhere it is found globally in the TRIRIGA system.
   Tip: When the number of characters in the Replace field is greater than the number of characters in the Search field, the replacement does not occur when doing so would exceed the number of characters defined in the Data Modeler for the target field.

   If this occurs, a warning that contains the text “replace was not able to update” appears in the server.log file.

   Warning: You cannot undo a Replace. Any text throughout the TRIRIGA system that matches the string that you include in the Search field will be replaced.

   To confirm that the information is removed, you can check the server.log file for error or warning messages.

   To locate the server.log file, open the Administrator Console and select Error Logs from the Managed Objects list. Then, in the Error Logs section, click server-<date>.log. The list of available server.logs displays. Select the hyperlinked file name. Depending on the browser, the file downloads or you have a choice to view or download.

   Another way to confirm that the information is removed is to create a new Data Erasure Utility record and search again. If you choose to do this, you may want to first roll the server.log file to make it easier to distinguish the log information for the first search versus the second.

   To roll the server.log, use the Roll action to the right of the server-<date>.log name in the list.