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Master Data Management

Implement compression of REST request and reply data

We're using the REST interface. But sometimes we get a lot of data back. E.g. when we retreive a contract with a high inquiry level. Sending this data can be speed up by using gzip (or an other format) as a lot of REST API's already do.
over 9 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Use extension and subsitutionGroups in XSD

The MDM data model has you extend entities and the implementation of extensions is done via extending the Java classes. For instance if you extend the Person entity then your generated extension class extends "TCRMPersonBObj", however the Java ext...
over 9 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Support for MDM v12 deployment on WAS BASE

We are planning for an upgrade to MDM v12, later in 2023. We as a business are moving to cloud based infrastructure and as part of that journey we are guided by corporate principles for deployment. IBM provided containers for MDM do not meet our c...
about 3 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Partitioning by region via PME Data Source

MDM v10.1 describes the Data Source for the probabilistic matching tables via PME specific properties files. This has enabled to configure PME Data Source to be different then the Data Source for the rest of the MDM operational tables, in order to...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

MDM AE : Performance overhead due to timestamp field format

As per the Bank's service contract, timestamp must have 'T' in the data to comply the contract validation. (Ex: 2012-03-25T00:00:00.002). But on IBM MDM service response, this T is not available on timestamp which leads to contract validation f...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Run workbench without Admin access

IBM Services team came over last year, and told RBC developer needs Admin access on their laptop, to customize MDM behavior. It's RBC policy not granting individual Admin access on his laptop. We come up with workaround. IBM consultant developed M...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Request to enhance ACM to support SFTP

ACM (Advanced Catalog Management) currently supports only FTP. Unfortunately, our customer is disabling FTP protocol organization-wide and pushing all apps to migrate to SFTP. Request to enhance ACM to support SFTP.
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 0 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...
over 6 years 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...
over 3 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 v3....
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration