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Master Data Management

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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

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

Hide merged members

We have many entities in our database that have a high volume of merged records that make it difficult to review tasks for remediation. The work around is to scroll up and down and remove records from the records attribute section one at a time or...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Upgrade Log4j from 1.x to 2.x in IBM Infosphere MDM Platform.

Current IBM MDM versions 12.x and 11.x uses Log4j 1.2.6 version which is Outdated, officially end of life from Apache and it is no longer maintained. Hence recommendation is to upgrade the Log4j to its latest version 2.x in IBM MDM platform that w...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Allow message brokers to auto-start on boot of Linux

Would like the MDM message brokers to be able to restart on their own after a reboot of a Linux server. Currently have to manually restart after reboot when patches are applied or server is shutdown. Recently switched from windows to Linux on AWS....
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

MDM v12 SSO with ISVA

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/imdm/12.0?topic=imic-enabling-third-party-authentication-single-sign-sso-in-inspector This link is lacking, per ISVA support and customers. Please provide integration instructions for SSO using ISVA to MDM v12
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

MDM v12 Browser Support for Microsoft Edge

Hi Support, This is Mark from Accenture, i work in behalf of our client IHIS here in Singapore. Our client primarily uses Microsoft products, and they're asking if there are any plans to support Microsoft Edge. Please advise
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 6 Not under consideration

Add capability to disable content sniffing in MDM Web Applications (Inspector, Web Report, Enterprise Viewer)

MDM v11.6.0.11 provides Inspector, Web Report and Enterprise Viewer which are running on WAS v9.0.5.4. There is no way in MDM Web Applications to set 'X-Content-Type-Options' HTTP header with the value nosniff. This can make the web applications v...
almost 3 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Planned for future release

Chrome and Edge Compatibility for Inspector

Our organization would like to sunset Internet Explorer and move to Chrome or Edge.
about 3 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Functionality already exists

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...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Is a defect