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Master Data Management

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Allowing extensions for preferences

on 11.4 workbench, we had a way to enable extension by overriding "extendableInline=true" as indicated bellow. In 11.6 workbench, we tried the same but were not able to get around the restriction. We are in upgrade process and this has become a st...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Ability to upgrade the MDM database while running docker deployment

Enable the Configure_MDM_Interactive.sh script to perform MDM database upgrade if required. When the script executes, it can take an input from the customer on whether database upgrade has to be performed and can invoke the upgrade if required. Th...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Support for DB2 / DB2U containers along with MDM

DB2U ( DB2 Universal) containers on DB2 V11.5 went live late last year and currently MDM is not shipping with a production-ready version of DB2 containers and hence we need to evaluate if we can use and start providing Db2 11.5 containers as an en...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Support for Podman based runtime for launching IBM Infosphere MDM AE Container images

Infosphere MDM container images are pulled from IBM container registry (us.icr.io) using the Docker Compose Yaml files released by IBM for each versions of MDM AE images. Ford Motor Company currently has Redhat Openshift container platform v...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Unlimited field length for MDM

Client has MDM and EPIC. They have already extended the field length once but changes in EPIC mean they are sending fields with more characters than MDM supports so they get truncated. The request is to allow for unlimited field length in MDM. The...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 6 Functionality already exists

Sending notifications XA (like) to Kafka

When using a JMS provider you're able to send the notification as part of the XA transaction. For Kafka this is not possible (as per Kafka implementation). Come with a solution so using Kafka for notifications is a usable option (currently not). ...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Customer specific Kafka resource

Kafka is supported by MDM, but you're not able to create and use you own Kafka resource. You now have to use one of the OOTB resources. We want to be able to split the type of data to be send to different Kafka endpoints.
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Physical MDM Suspect Duplicates improvements

Product is Data stewardship UI System : Physical MDMSuspected Duplicate Process Application Description : issue 1 - Cannot Freeze the ID, Name etc. in preview collapse screen. These to be visible at all times. And scroll bar to be available at the...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration

Pagination in Preview Collapse

NB: Case number is TS003080650.Product is Data stewardship UI System : Physical MDMSuspected Duplicate Process Application Description : Major issue - If there are 20 suspects for a party, in preview screen the Right pane will contain 20 party det...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Automation of MDM customization deployment

MDM customization may require asset changes like Code changes, Properties changes, Database changes, etc. Currently the deployment of MDM customization is mostly manual approach. With clients moving to containerized solution, the requirement to au...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release