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Master Data Management

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Read Only User Group/Role should not allow for use of the export feature

Read only users at CTC of Match360 should only be able to explore and read what exists in Match360, and given the sensitivity of the data, they should never be allowed to export any of the data to a local computer. This is a large risk to the firm...
8 months ago in Master Data Management 0

Terminate a long running txn on the MDM Operational Server when a set timeout is reached at the Client.

When MDM txns are executed on the Operational Server (getParty for example), the calling Client stays connected until receiving a SUCCESS or FAILURE response from the server. Once the response is received, the connection is closed. In the case whe...
9 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

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...
over 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...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 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Current IBM MDM versions 12.x and 11.x uses Log4j 1.2.6 version which is Outdated, officially end of life from Apache and it is no longer maintained.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...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Matching Setup's Matching Summary Statistics to reflect Incremental Match Runs

Currently, matching statistics (diagram, summary statistics, counts) only reflect bulk runs and as stated by the Match360 SME, "matching setup" page only shows the output of the bulk report job, so incrementally added records won't be reflected he...
11 months ago in Master Data Management 0

Entity Identifier converted to String in Match360 Data Explorer to allow for complex searches

We've come across the limitation in Master Data Explorer's advanced search, where entity identifier with a condition of "starts with" or "ends with" breaks upon searching. The reason - as explained by Master Data Explorer Development Team - is tha...
11 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Future consideration

Add support for AIX 7.2 with MDM 11.5

There are a lot of additional security features that have been added to AIX 7.2 and are not available in earlier versions. Security scans have uncovered security concerns on AIX 7.1
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Functionality already exists

inactive party contact methods – performance issue

We are maintaining history in the main tables only as we are end dating and adding new records for any demographics change. We have observed in Performance testing environment few Parties are having 500+ end dated record for Contact methods and 4 ...
12 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Allow message brokers to auto-start on boot of Linux

Would like the MDM message brokers to be able to restart on their own after a reboot of a Linux server. Currently have to manually restart after reboot when patches are applied or server is shutdown. Recently switched from windows to Linux on AWS....
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration