Subscribing to exception events

You can use Subscription Manager to send exception events for data quality rules that occur in IBM® InfoSphere® Information Analyzer and in the Exceptions stage of IBM InfoSphere DataStage® and QualityStage®.

Before you begin

Before you can use the email notification option in Subscription Manager, you must configure the email provider.

To receive email notification, the recipient must be listed as a user on IBM InfoSphere Information Server and must have an email address that is specified in the Administration Console.

To subscribe to exception events, you must have the following roles and credentials:

To open Subscription Manager, you must have the InfoSphere Information Server suite user role or higher.
To see and subscribe to exception events, you must have the Exception Management Administrator or the Exception Manager Data Steward role.
To create subscriptions that use the sample processes in the application file or any other IBM Business Process Manager application, you must specify the user name and password of an IBM BPM user on the computer where IBM Stewardship Center is installed.

Procedure

Open the Subscription Manager.
In the Subscriptions tab, click Add.
In the Add Subscription window, enter a name for the subscription.
Select an event type.
Select either Email or Application as the notification type. If no application is registered for the selected event type, email notification is automatically chosen.
Specify the notification details:
Email

Your email address is displayed in the To: field. To send copies of the email notifications for this subscription to other InfoSphere Information Server suite users, start to type the recipient name in the CC: field, and then select the name. You can enter names of multiple suite users.

Application

Select an application that is registered to receive events of your selected event type. If you select a process application that uses IBM BPM, enter your IBM BPM user name and password. The password is encrypted before it is saved. If necessary, you can use the encryption tool to encrypt the password first and then paste it into the password field.
Filter the exception events that you subscribe to. Select Filter by event type property and specify valid values for one or more properties of the event type that you want to filter on. By filtering, you subscribe to only those events that are important to you. If you specify multiple values, your subscription includes only those events for which all specified values are true. For example, if you filter on projectName and on exceptionSetName, only those events that are from the specified project and from the specified data rule or the Exceptions stage are included in the subscription.

Creating a subscription

An Exception Management Administrator wants to subscribe to exception events from certain projects in InfoSphere Information Analyzer and InfoSphere DataStage and QualityStage. The events are sent to Data Quality Exception Console for processing.

On the Subscriptions tab of Subscription Manager, the administrator clicks Add, and then specifies details in the Add New Subscription window.

The administrator selects NEW _EXCEPTIONS_EVENT and selects Application as the form of notification. The administrator selects the application Data Quality Exception Console, which makes the exceptions sets visible in Data Quality Exception Console. Because this application does not use IBM BPM, no user name or password is required.

The administrator filters the events by using the projectName property to specify that the subscription is for only those exception events from the project SA_Customer. Other exception events are ignored and are not sent to Data Quality Exception Console.

As needed, the administrator creates more subscriptions for events from different projects, from particular rules, or from particular software applications.