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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Master Data Management

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Hide merged members

We have many entities in our database that have a high volume of merged records that make it difficult to review tasks for remediation. The work around is to scroll up and down and remove records from the records attribute section one at a time or...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

IBM MDM Support of PosgreSQL as repository database

We have got information that such feature is being implemented half year back. We tried to ask about the status via support case and have been forwarded to this tool as the proper channel for the question. Is our information correct that the featu...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

MDM SE: Support newer versions of java in madapi.jar

Currently madapi.jar only works with java 8*. Any newer version breaks due to issues with how java 9 repackaged xml based classes, and any fix will need code changes. Since other java components require newer versions of java (e.g. the latest spri...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade Log4j from 1.x to 2.x in IBM Infosphere MDM Platform.

Current IBM MDM versions 12.x and 11.x uses Log4j 1.2.6 version which is Outdated, officially end of life from Apache and it is no longer maintained. Hence recommendation is to upgrade the Log4j to its latest version 2.x in IBM MDM platform that w...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Customer raised concerns over PUT method used by MDM instead they want to use POST

Sharing the concern raised by bank’s security group. If we can address the same please. Thanks If PUT method if enabled, an attacker may be able to place arbitrary and potentially malicious content into the application. Depending on the server's c...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE/SE v11.6.0.11 should be supported supported on Windows 2019 Standard Edition

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE/SE v11.6.0.11 is currently not supported on Windows 2019 Standard Edition. IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE/SE v11.6.0.11 should be supported supported on Windows 2019 Standard Edition
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Allow message brokers to auto-start on boot of Linux

Would like the MDM message brokers to be able to restart on their own after a reboot of a Linux server. Currently have to manually restart after reboot when patches are applied or server is shutdown. Recently switched from windows to Linux on AWS....
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

MDM v12 SSO with ISVA

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/12.0?topic=imic-enabling-third-party-authentication-single-sign-sso-in-inspector This link is lacking, per ISVA support and customers. Please provide integration instructions for SSO using ISVA to MDM v12
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Enable option to copy party and/or hyperlink on partyID to open its details in new browser tab

Case number TS010189212 We have business requirement to enable option in Lineage node to copy party and/or hyperlink on partyID to open its details in new browser tab. Please advise possibility of this change. PFA Lineage screen snapshot.
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Enable all the method types of Rest APIs instead of limiting the usage to PUT.

Currently in Nordea, we are looking for options where our consumers can directly interact with MDM services through rest apis instead of an intermediate service which eventually increase performance and save the effort for managing multiple compon...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration