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Master Data Management

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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

Support of AIX 7.3 with MDM 11.6.0.11

We went through the system requirements and found that WAS 9.0.5.11 ND is supported by Advanced Edition of IBM MDM at 11.6.0.11. We have recently upgraded our OS (AIX) version from 7.1 (7.1 TL5 SP1) into 7.3 (7.3 TL0 SP1 ) in lower environments (D...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

Tweak/Relax the validations on the source codes and source names for migrating MDM solution to IBM Virtual MDM with the least impact

Our team is preparing to make all our MDM solutions an IBM Virtual MDM Shop to tap into various functional and operational services catering to our usecases. As a part of which, we are migrating long standing MDM hubs using other competing MDM pro...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Future consideration

Show notes for Inspector obsolete records

Entity records tab does not display notes icon for obsolete records that have a note. See PMR 30848,756,000
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 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...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Event Manager and Entity Manager need to work in coordination to prevent update and merge timing issue.

Based on our findings and the confirmation from IBM support we have submitted this RFE to address this problem. We found an issue in MDM event notification which can impact downstream systems that rely on MDM EID. This is a timing issue and only o...
almost 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...
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

Potential glue tasks Resolution

To resolve Glue Tasks using Inspector when an Entity has multiple Glue Tasks, the tasks must be resolved one-by-one and then the entities can be merged. This means that a job which should take 1 minute requires 5 to 10 minutes of a steward's time....
about 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

TAIL Logging Customization In MDM AE- Case TS000044672

The issue occurs during tail logging when a requester is part of multiple userRoles. We have multiple userRoles in DWLControl to which user is associated and the RoV rules are applied on those groups. There are some users (super users) who are par...
about 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration