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Master Data Management

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To provide attribute level score along with record level score for IxnMemSearch

To check the confidence of matching records which comes as response from IxnMemSearch,further we need attribute leve score as well.
almost 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Provide the ability for MDM Workbench to support extension attributes of type XML

Both DB2 and Oracle support the XML datatype. MDM Workbench does not support creating extension attributes of type XML. Supporting attributes of type XML provides more flexibility in extensions. Currently the only supported XML extensions are out ...
about 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

multiple language support on name & address in MDM

multiple language support on name & address: The goal would be to allow the solution to store and manage the addresses and names in multiple languages". Matching should be able to detect both language entries
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Provide flexible way to segementise tasks based on various attributes of the data model

It is desirable to be able to query for a combination of attributes.Query should support wildcard and phonetic where applicable.Attributes are:Meta level - Match Category type - Score range - From/Til which date/time on has a task been created (I'...
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Extend codetables with an extra column providing an alphanumeric functional code

For us it's vital to have functional alphanumeric codes for codetables (language independent, like the id). Currently codetables have an id, name and language code (besides the description, expiry date and last update date) to describe code relate...
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Explanation of property files values

Inside the properties asset of MDM 11.4.0.3 are a couple of properties files (like TCRM.properties and DWLCommon.properties). There's no extensively documentation about the values of the key's inside the property files.Knowing the options we can u...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 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 ...
7 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...
9 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