Prepare Data Element

Prepare data element.

What you are doing

Creating a DOB data element that defines what is protected (Date of Birth) and how it is protected using date tokenization in YYYY-MM-DD format.

Why it matters

Data elements are the protection building blocks that policies grant access to.

CLI Code

pim create dataelements token date-time --name "de_dob_token" --description "Tokenize Date of Birth" --tokenizer "SLT_8_DATETIME"

CLI Actual Output

UID  NAME          DESCRIPTION             TOKENIZER       TOKENIZETIME  DISTINGUISHABLEDATE  DATEINCLEAR
1    de_dob_token  Tokenize Date of Birth  SLT_8_DATETIME  False         False                TokenElementDateInClear.NONE  

API Endpoint

POST /pim/dataelements

API Code

curl -k \
-H "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
-H "accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-X POST "https://${GW_HOST}/pty/v2/pim/dataelements" \
-d '{
"name": "de_dob_token",
"description": "Tokenize Date of Birth",
"dateTimeToken": {
"tokenizer": "SLT_8_DATETIME",
"tokenizeTime": false,
"distinguishableDate": false,
"dateInClear": "NONE"
}
}'

API Actual Output

{"uid":"1","name":"de_dob_token","description":"Tokenize Date of Birth","dateTimeToken":{"tokenizer":"SLT_8_DATETIME","tokenizeTime":false,"distinguishableDate":false,"dateInClear":"NONE"}}

Last modified : July 29, 2026