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Entry preview does not consider local changes

"Entry preview" are using entry data as they are in DB and are not considering entry data client side as user may have updated some attribute values before launching entry preview. As a result, user must SAVE entry before launching Entry Preview.S...
over 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Manage display name on container

Catalog name is displayed to end-users (in left panel / module) and it cannot be renamed. In Catalog console / Catalog Attributes, can you add a feature to update "catalog name" in order to : 1) adapt name to potential organizational change2) use ...
over 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Access Rights management on Lookup table

All lookup tables are accessible to a user who got access right to menu "Lookup console". We would like to have same ACG mechanism which is implemented on Catalog / Hierarchy to manage different level of access.
over 6 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Retrieve specific catalog version after change in web UI

On the left panel of MDM CE web UI the catalog version can be changed.Then when selecting an item, data that are displayed in tabs must correspond to catalog selected version.For custom tabs there's no way to get the current version of the catalog...
over 6 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Item Export sheet should show the drop-down list of Display Attribute for Lookup type attribute.

Current Behaviour: When we export the item, the lookup attribute is exported only as a primary key(the drop-down list contains primary key.) Idea/Requirement: In the Item Export for the lookup type attribute user should have choice to export as pr...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

eh-cache upgrade

The MDMCS application should upgrade open source eh-cache library. On MDMCS v11.5 and later versions, the $TOP/logs/Appsvr*/ native_cache.log provides logging that states: INFO net.sf.ehcache.util.UpdateChecker - New update(s) found: 2.6.5 [http:/...
almost 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Align user roles with a hierarchy

Add a feature to the MDM role assignments to allow roles to be aligned with a level in a selected hierarchy - thus the user will not have access to items that do not fall within their branch of the hierarchy.
almost 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Export / Import Environment of History Manager logs

We have a major change in MDM Production Architecture / Environment.To reach target architecture, we are going to "merge" 2 business entities working in 2 distincts MDM instances into one single MDM instance.To execute this operation, we need to e...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Log in history the Adding/Removing of the new instance of multi occurrence attribute

We need to be aware of adding/removing of the multi occurrence attributes data in the workflow history. The current design (IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Collaboration Server (MDMCS-11.6.0.9-2018.07.02) does not contain this feature.
over 4 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

Ability to add custom functions on RulesConsole

Hi, The idea comes from case # TS007161947. There is a RulesConsole page in Persona UI. Now, while construction of "if statements" (see the screenshot) there is possibility to select function, however users can't code their own function for any at...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration