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Master Data Management

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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 ...
6 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

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...
7 months ago in Master Data Management 0 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...
8 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Support for MDM v12 deployment on WAS BASE

We are planning for an upgrade to MDM v12, later in 2023. We as a business are moving to cloud based infrastructure and as part of that journey we are guided by corporate principles for deployment. IBM provided containers for MDM do not meet our c...
9 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Request to enhance ACM to support SFTP

ACM (Advanced Catalog Management) currently supports only FTP. Unfortunately, our customer is disabling FTP protocol organization-wide and pushing all apps to migrate to SFTP. Request to enhance ACM to support SFTP.
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

In Match 360 there should be an easier way to remove attributes from published model

In current version of Match 360 as soon as data model is published, there is no way to remove a single attribute even if no data is mapped to it and it is not used in matching. The only way to solve it is to run unpublished reset model APIs which ...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Loading incremental sources will require full extract from Match360 to consuming systems

For our customer, sources will be loaded into Match 360 gradually. First 5 sources will go thru initial load and then ongoing inbound process will be turned on to apply updates thru ongoing_sync APIs. Match 360 itself is not a point of data consum...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Publishing events functionality is missing reprocessing logic in case of Kafka unavailability

In the new events publishing functionality ( version 4.7) where update/insert/delete events are published into Kafka queue, in case if Kafka queue is unavailable and updates still happen to Match 360, all events are lost and will not be sent into ...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Match 360 - Creating matches across different entity types

Match 360 needs to be able to create matches across different entities. Currently, matches are only performed within an entity type only. Not across entity types. Example is matching algorithm will match within Person Type and Org Type independent...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Ongoing sync API for Match 360 update should have an option not to update record if nothing change and not to trigger match/entity composition

In our process we do not know what values changed in the customer record during ongoing inbound process. As there are multiple record types generated from a single customer record, all record types get updated, person record type gets updated , ma...
10 months ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration