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Master Data Management

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 8 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Entity Identifier converted to String in Match360 Data Explorer to allow for complex searches

We've come across the limitation in Master Data Explorer's advanced search, where entity identifier with a condition of "starts with" or "ends with" breaks upon searching. The reason - as explained by Master Data Explorer Development Team - is tha...
almost 3 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Future 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...
almost 6 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 ...
almost 6 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...
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

inactive party contact methods – performance issue

We are maintaining history in the main tables only as we are end dating and adding new records for any demographics change. We have observed in Performance testing environment few Parties are having 500+ end dated record for Contact methods and 4 ...
almost 3 years ago in Master Data Management 0 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 6 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Is a defect

Error handling strategy for Match360 message triggers that fail to be written to kafka topics

When IBM Match360 publishes entity or record messages to Kafka topics, a strategy for error handling is needed if the message fails to be written: - configurable number of retries before an error is raised - configurable time-out before an error i...
about 3 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Make 'highlight same' always ON. Currently makes user select highlight buttons every time a task is opened.

In MDM Inspector when opening a task for resolution, we would like to be able to default the "hightlight same" button as always on.
over 9 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Match360: Create UI to parameterize feature weightings (and any other code based configurations)

Match algorithm tuning and configuration requires code adjustments to adjust feature weightings that affect the customer record match scoring. Match tuning and configuration had been set as a business activity. The business users should not be goi...
about 3 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration