Issues with "From and To" Occurrence fields with Formatencrypt in Fast Data Masker

Products

• CA Test Data Manager (Data Finder / Grid Tools)

Issue/Introduction

Using "From and To" Occurrence fields with Formatencrypt in Fast Data Masker, throwing below error when the column to be masked is null if From Occurrence and To Occurrence are defined in the masking rule. Log file shows the below:

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: -1

at java.lang.String.substring(Unknown Source)

at com.grid_tools.products.datamasker.Datamasker.processFileRow(Datamasker.java:7736)

at com.grid_tools.products.datamasker.Datamasker.doFileMasking(Datamasker.java:9673)

at com.grid_tools.products.datamasker.Datamasker.main(Datamasker.java:3965)

 

Cause

Defect

Environment

Release : FDM 4.8.161.0

Component : CA Test Data Manager

Resolution

Engineering shared the new binaries for FDM which should resolve the issue.
Windows: FastDataMasker-4.8.162.0.zip
Linux: FastDataMasker-4.8.162.0.tar.gz 

Additional Information

. Mask Production Data with Fast Data Masker
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/continuous-testing/test-data-management/4-8-1/provisioning-test-data/mask-production-data-with-fast-data-masker.html

. List of Classifiers
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/continuous-testing/test-data-management/4-8-1/create-a-data-model-and-audit-pii-data/pii-audit-using-ca-tdm-portal/manage-data-classifiers/list-of-classifiers.html

. Masking Options
https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/continuous-testing/test-data-management/4-8-1/create-a-data-model-and-audit-pii-data/pii-audit-using-ca-tdm-portal/manage-data-classifiers/list-of-classifiers.html