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Master Data Management

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Request for addition of Group Processing Functionality in Virtual MDM at 11.6.0.11

We had discussed in past on the availability of group processing functionality and IBM MDM Advocate: Effy Wu confirmed that this functionality no longer exist in MDM version11.6.0.11. We would like to get IBM's recommendations on the alternative ...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Planned for future release

Increase Source Code and Source Name Length in IBM MDM SE

We are in middle of migrating our MDM system from one of the other Vendor to IBM InfoSphere MDM Standard Edition. There are some source codes which are of length greater than 12 characters and source names which are off length greater than 40 char...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

DataStage MDM Connector - Single Sign On (SSO). Current Client (MHD - Missouri HealthNet Division) has a requirement for SSO on all client applications including DS MDM Connector. Currently this is not support

We are implementing MDM SE 11.6 at our client MHD - Missouri HealthNet Division and they have a business requirement for all client connections use SSO. Currently only Inspector (and now Web Reports) has this capability so we need the DataStage MD...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Is a defect

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...
almost 4 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...
almost 4 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...
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 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

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