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Master Data Management

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IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE - Enhance Kafka property files to store encrypted password for MDM Kafka publishing

Currently IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE v12 is not supporting to encrypt the Kafka user/password when publishing MDM message to external kafka server. IBM PMR team suggested to enter clear text password in wsjaas.conf file to pass the u...
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE/SE v11.6.0.11 should be supported supported on Windows 2019 Standard Edition

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE/SE v11.6.0.11 is currently not supported on Windows 2019 Standard Edition. IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE/SE v11.6.0.11 should be supported supported on Windows 2019 Standard Edition
almost 2 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

MDM Beta: Overview screen Matching Setup thinks you still need to setup data and model but it is already published.

If you never have run matching before but you have already published data and a model. The overview screen says on the bottom half that you still need to setup data and a model. There is no link on the next step so it took me a while to figure out...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Is a defect

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 ...
about 4 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...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under 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 8 years ago in Master Data Management 1 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...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Is a defect

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...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 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....
over 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...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration