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My votes: Master Data Management

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Flexibility to Make Attributes Searchable After Creation in Match360

Currently, in the Match360 data model, an attribute can only be designated as searchable during its initial creation. Once the attribute is created and published, it cannot be altered as a searchable attribute. This lack of flexibility restricts t...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

Loading incremental sources will require full extract from Match360 to consuming systems

For our customer, sources will be loaded into Match 360 gradually. First 5 sources will go thru initial load and then ongoing inbound process will be turned on to apply updates thru ongoing_sync APIs. Match 360 itself is not a point of data consum...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Publishing events functionality is missing reprocessing logic in case of Kafka unavailability

In the new events publishing functionality ( version 4.7) where update/insert/delete events are published into Kafka queue, in case if Kafka queue is unavailable and updates still happen to Match 360, all events are lost and will not be sent into ...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Match 360 - Creating matches across different entity types

Match 360 needs to be able to create matches across different entities. Currently, matches are only performed within an entity type only. Not across entity types. Example is matching algorithm will match within Person Type and Org Type independent...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Ongoing sync API for Match 360 update should have an option not to update record if nothing change and not to trigger match/entity composition

In our process we do not know what values changed in the customer record during ongoing inbound process. As there are multiple record types generated from a single customer record, all record types get updated, person record type gets updated , ma...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

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

Match360 should be able to show ‘goodness’ or quality of relationship among individuals

Thank you May for walking us through the relationship logic in the app yesterday. We are developing using m360 IDs to uncover 2nd and 3rd degree relationships. But the client is exploring diff possibilities for exposing relationships among the dat...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Future 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