Overview of Subscription Manager
You can subscribe to exception events and specify the action to take when an event is generated.
The Subscription Manager provides a notification service that you can use to monitor and act on events that are of interest to you. You can subscribe to receive notifications for exception events for data quality rules. These exception events are created in IBM® InfoSphere® Information Analyzer and in the Exceptions stage in IBM InfoSphere DataStage® and QualityStage®.
An event is an occurrence of significance to a task or system. Events can include completion or failure of an operation, a user action, or the change in state of a process. For example, a NEW_EXCEPTIONS_EVENT is created for one or more exceptions to a data rule.
In Subscription Manager, you can view and subscribe to any exceptions event type if you have the required role.
You can filter the event type of the subscription to receive notifications for only those events that you are interested in. You filter the subscription by specifying values for one or more properties of the event type. For example, you might specify that you want to receive notification only when a NEW_EXCEPTIONS_EVENT is created for exceptions to a specific rule in a specific project.
Notification types
- Email notifications are sent to you. You can specify that other suite users receive copies of the email.
- Application
- Notification is sent to a program that processes notices of events. Applications can be specific to one or more event types.
- You can specify only one application per subscription. Not all event types support applications. Some support only email notification.
- Applications that send events to IBM Business Process Manager require that you specify the credentials of an IBM BPM user. Applications that send events to an InfoSphere Information Server suite tool or product do not require credentials.
Viewing and deleting subscriptions
On the Subscriptions tab, you can see only those subscriptions that you create. You can select a subscription to view its properties, including its description and the event-type filters that it uses.
You can delete one or more selected subscriptions. To maintain continuous notification of events, you might want to first create a subscription to replace the subscription that you plan to delete. Two subscriptions are created automatically when you install Data Quality Exception Console, one subscription for each exceptions event type. You must have the role of InfoSphere Information Server Suite Administrator to see and delete those subscriptions.
You can also filter the display of subscriptions on the tab. For example, you might display only subscriptions for events of the type NEW_EXCEPTIONS_EVENT that were created within the past week, where any text includes the word Customer.
Viewing event types
On the Event Types tab, you can view descriptions of the event types that you have the required role to see. You can choose from any of these event types when you create a subscription.