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Master Data Management

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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...
over 5 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
over 5 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.
about 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Make MDM Spec Validation more robust

MDM AE Spec validation is JPAL based. As a result it does not support more advanced schema attributes like union, list, etc. These more advanced attributes are required to support the ability to define new simple types: 1) union of a Date and an e...
about 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Request to make DATE2 standardization and comparison function work with FPF2

We are implementing Hybrid MDM for mastering customer demographics in virtual MDM and eventually storing it in Physical hub supplementing the persisted view with the customer consent information. Currently, we have the virtual MDM hub in live prod...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Get MemBktd/MemCmpd using APIs and Compare using MemCmpd using APIs

We would like the Java API's enhanced with the following new methods: A method that accepts MemRowList of attributes returns MemBktd and MemCmpd rows for those records. A method that accepts MemRowList of MemCmpd and compares records using informa...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Arabic support in InfoSphere Master Data Management in order to address market request

Several requests has been raised for Arabic support in MDM per MEA region & Levant Gulf area.
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

No Place holder for evtctime in ESOA Madclient services

Inclusion of EVTCTIME in the ESOA madclinet services will help us in setting the source system provided record modified or last updated time as the actual record updated time in MDM rather than considering the system time when the record gets into...
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Non Alphanumeric characters in MEMIDENT

As memident holds source system identifiers we have encountered rejections/issues with source systems that utilise special characters in unique identifiers for a record. We would like to enhance out of the box behaviour to support special characters
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

MDM Inspector support for "<>" characters in user passwords

We would like the MDM system, and Inspector specifically, to support user passwords that contain the less than < and greater than > characters.
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration