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Master Data Management

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Provide the ability for MDM Workbench to support extension attributes of type XML

Both DB2 and Oracle support the XML datatype. MDM Workbench does not support creating extension attributes of type XML. Supporting attributes of type XML provides more flexibility in extensions. Currently the only supported XML extensions are out ...
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

multiple language support on name & address in MDM

multiple language support on name & address: The goal would be to allow the solution to store and manage the addresses and names in multiple languages". Matching should be able to detect both language entries
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

SSO Capability for MDM Consent UI

The Consent Management UI needs to access various backend services (MDM AE, MDM SE, Elastic Search etc.) It is doing this by direct requests from the web browser to the back end services (there is no other layer in between). Authentication works a...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Messages not getting added to Kafka EntityId topic through custom services(for custom objects)

To enhance the messaging capability, we tried enabling the kafka functionality of IBM MDM. Steps mentioned in the IBM knowledge center - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWSR9_11.6.0/com.ibm.swg.im.mdmhs.kafka.export.doc/topics/kafka_c...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 8 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'...
over 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...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Single Sign On (SSO) support for Web Reports and Enterprise Viewer MDM SE applications

We have a requirement to enable Single Sign On (SSO) for Web Reports and Enterprise viewer applications. Can this feature be added to these apps ?
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

MDM Beta: Allowing to select both Excluded and Map column in Mapping tab

Allowing to select both Excluded and Map column in Mapping tab for the dataset columns. There should no way to add data from multiple files (data set) to single entity.
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 4 Not under consideration

Support multiple nodes for Jetty Server in MDM Publisher

Please add support for multiple fault tolerant instances of Jetty Server. If the node containing a Jetty Server instance fails then another instance should be able to continue publishing updates to Master Data Connect. Note - This request is refer...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Generate CSV same as XML file from BatchExport

As given in the PMR: https://www.ibm.com/mysupport/s/case/5000z00001TRZdtAAH/csv-export-for-batchexport-functionality-in-rdm-hub We wanted to have InfoSphere Reference data management to support BatchExport API to: Allow both "set" and "value" dat...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration