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Align user roles with a hierarchy

Add a feature to the MDM role assignments to allow roles to be aligned with a level in a selected hierarchy - thus the user will not have access to items that do not fall within their branch of the hierarchy.
almost 7 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Export / Import Environment of History Manager logs

We have a major change in MDM Production Architecture / Environment.To reach target architecture, we are going to "merge" 2 business entities working in 2 distincts MDM instances into one single MDM instance.To execute this operation, we need to e...
about 7 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Possibility to fill lookup attributes via keyboard

Product: MDMCE 11.5.0 - Single-Edit-ScreenCurrently the (new) simplified UI permits a convenient enrichment of most attributes just using the keyboard, e.g. TAB-key to jump to the next input field. However, lookup attributes are more complicated t...
almost 8 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Allow role based access of specific hierarchies, specs and lookup tables

Currently different users within our business are able to modify specific hierarchies or attributes. However, just because a user can modify one of those areas does not mean they should be able to access all areas. For example, a marketing user ma...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

NewUI - Need better clarity on the count of categories/items at category level

Consider the scenario, when a parent category has 2 child categories and each child category has only items mapped to it. Here in the NewUI, the parent category hovers (Category contains 2 subcategories and 0 items) Parent Category ( 2/0 ) Child C...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Find and Replace functionality should be applied to only selected items in Collaboration, not all items by default

The current functionality of the 'Find and Replace' button requires filters to be in place to allow only selected items to be updated. Otherwise all items in the Collaboration Area are included for updating even if only a few items are ticked in t...
over 2 years ago in Product Master 1 Not under consideration

Allow configurable setting for com.ibm.ml.util.HTTPUtil connection.setConnectTimeout() and connection.setReadTimeout()

Machine Learning attribute classification fails intermittently due to read timeout. The (java) workflow engine is waiting on the machine learning (python) process to complete. For large datasets, there’s no way to speed it up. The machine learning...
about 3 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

ACM support for Unit Of Measure

We at Parker Hannifin Corporation working on integration of IBM MDMCS (Version 11.6) with WCS (Version 8.X) using OOTB ACM accelerator. At commerce (WCS) end there is a field named Unit of Measurement at value level which can be associated in eac...
over 4 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration

Log in history the Adding/Removing of the new instance of multi occurrence attribute

We need to be aware of adding/removing of the multi occurrence attributes data in the workflow history. The current design (IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Collaboration Server (MDMCS-11.6.0.9-2018.07.02) does not contain this feature.
over 4 years ago in Product Master 2 Not under consideration

GDSN, Change the way a CHANGE_BY_REFRESH kind of message is being handled. It is now being saved multiple times.

When recieving a CHANGE_BY_REFRESH type of message in the WWRE and passing that to the Global Local Catalog with create trade items, the tradeitems are being saved multiple times. It look like if the items get saved as many times as there are cate...
about 5 years ago in Product Master 0 Not under consideration