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Master Data Management

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Reports MDM ADMIN Missing Users

for any user that does not belong to the "mdm admin" group. Even internal groups can see limited lists if they are not part of the "mdm admin" group. This "mdm admin" group is the one typically found in the mpi_grphead table with a grprecno 1. T...
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

MDM - Replace triggers with temporal tables

At Ford we use MDM software to manage our customer base information. MDM talks to DB2 on ZOS to retrieve customer information. MDM uses DB2 triggers to maintain history data. For large UOW transactions triggers have been a performance bottle neck ...
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

User ID and Password in SoapUI Header

Problem description and business impact : Using InfoSphere Master Data Management 11.6.0 on Redhat Linux, I observed in the SOAP WSDL interface, the Username and Password are passed in the SOAP Body instead of SOAP Header when doing a web service ...
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Custom Standardization/Comparison Functions for IBM Virtual MDM 11.x

This is follow up to RFE #90568. The request was to provide custom algorithm extensions for Virtual MDM. IBM Support says that this only exists in Big Match today. If possible I would prefer if the extensions could be developed and configured in t...
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Task Resolution tab the MRNs are displaying with the asaidxno number

In Task Resolution tab the MRNs are displaying with the asaidxno number, this can be misleading. Is it possible to display the scrcode.
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

MDM API MemScore should allow configuration for search comparison instead of linking comparison

The MemScore operation in the MDM API can be used to compare a set of search criteria against itself. We are using this functionality to determine the maximum potential score that will be returned for a given set of criteria. In this way, we can p...
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

PME: Disable Unused Functionality in Workbench

Many features of the PME algorithm are not available in PME AE, yet they still appear in workbench. I realize that this same Workbench UI is designed to form a configuration which can be deployed to several different products, but we could have an...
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

TAIL to avoid logging fatal transaction

Orange and NedBank (and probably a lot of other customers) do NOT want TAIL (Transaction Audit Information Log) to log failed transactions. At Orange their TAIL tables are amongst the largest in their database and causes performance and storage is...
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

ISC to include workflow for approving data change request

ISC to include workflow for approving data change request. this would work inconjuction with the critical data element change request feature in MDM AE
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

OOTB IBM Steardship Center Data Governance

The Out of the box ISC has data governance validation that is independent to MDM. It would nice to be able to control this functionality from MDM Rules engine or services or some new common rules engine.
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration