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Master Data Management

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No Place holder for evtctime in ESOA Madclient services

Inclusion of EVTCTIME in the ESOA madclinet services will help us in setting the source system provided record modified or last updated time as the actual record updated time in MDM rather than considering the system time when the record gets into...
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Non Alphanumeric characters in MEMIDENT

As memident holds source system identifiers we have encountered rejections/issues with source systems that utilise special characters in unique identifiers for a record. We would like to enhance out of the box behaviour to support special characters
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Make 'highlight same' always ON. Currently makes user select highlight buttons every time a task is opened.

In MDM Inspector when opening a task for resolution, we would like to be able to default the "hightlight same" button as always on.
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Provide flexible way to segementise tasks based on various attributes of the data model

It is desirable to be able to query for a combination of attributes.Query should support wildcard and phonetic where applicable.Attributes are:Meta level - Match Category type - Score range - From/Til which date/time on has a task been created (I'...
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

MDM Inspector support for "<>" characters in user passwords

We would like the MDM system, and Inspector specifically, to support user passwords that contain the less than < and greater than > characters.
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

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.
about 7 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...
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Highlight Same or Different buttons in Inspector do not work.

Over the last 10 years the Inspector Highlight Same and Highlight Different buttons have never worked properly. Highlight Different will highlight fields that are different due to casing or special character differences, but we know that the algor...
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Extend codetables with an extra column providing an alphanumeric functional code

For us it's vital to have functional alphanumeric codes for codetables (language independent, like the id). Currently codetables have an id, name and language code (besides the description, expiry date and last update date) to describe code relate...
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Add additional task statuses to the Search Member Task History search type

We are in the process of upgrading from Initiate 10.1 to MDM 11.5. In 10.1, we see two statuses for resolved potential overlay tasks, "Overlay Same Person" and "Overlay Resolved" in the Search Member Task History search type. However, in 11.5 we o...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration