Companies that deal with sensitive information must react
when data is exposed into an unauthorized environment or to those
without a need-to-know. Administrators can remove (redact) the sensitive
information by following these steps.
Before you begin
You must be a Rational® Engineering
Lifecycle Manager administrator to view and use the Redact menu
choice and icon.
About this task
You can begin a redact operation from the Browse
Products and Audit History screens.
Procedure
- Right-click over the product versions containing sensitive
information that you want to remove, and select Redact.
A completeness check starts to ensure that all product versions and
their successors are selected.
If a product version
you chose to redact has later versions (successors), and the successors
are not selected, the successors might have copies of the sensitive
information, so a warning dialog shows the successors.
- In the confirmation dialog box, click Redact.
After the product versions are redacted, the products remain
in the Browse Products and Audit History screens.
If the first product version is redacted, the name changes to Redacted.
If a product version with a predecessor is redacted, the name changes
to that of its predecessor.
- If the selected product versions do not include all versions
that contain sensitive information, the confirmation dialog box shows
a warning message. Click Show details to view
the list of versions that caused the incomplete redaction. You can
redact now or later.
To redact all sensitive information
immediately, follow the steps in step 4.
To redact some sensitive
information immediately and the remainder later, follow the steps
in step 5.
- Redact all sensitive information immediately.
- Copy and paste the list of product versions to a text
editor.
- In the confirmation dialog box, stop the incomplete
redaction by clicking Cancel.
- Redact the product versions that you originally selected
and the versions that you saved in the text editor from either the Browse
Products or Audit History screen.
- Optional: Redact some sensitive information
immediately and the remainder later.
- Copy and paste the list of product versions to a text
editor.
- In the confirmation dialog box, continue the incomplete
redaction by clicking Redact.
- When you are ready, redact the product versions that
you saved in the text editor from either the Browse Products or Audit
History screen.
- View the changes to the product versions in the Browse
Products or Audit History screen.
The redacted products remain in the Browse Products and Audit
History screens, but they no longer contain the product
version name, user properties, artifact links, added or removed child
products, and audit information about these changes.