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Master Data Management

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Run workbench without Admin access

IBM Services team came over last year, and told RBC developer needs Admin access on their laptop, to customize MDM behavior. It's RBC policy not granting individual Admin access on his laptop. We come up with workaround. IBM consultant developed M...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Potential glue tasks Resolution

To resolve Glue Tasks using Inspector when an Entity has multiple Glue Tasks, the tasks must be resolved one-by-one and then the entities can be merged. This means that a job which should take 1 minute requires 5 to 10 minutes of a steward's time....
about 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

TAIL Logging Customization In MDM AE- Case TS000044672

The issue occurs during tail logging when a requester is part of multiple userRoles. We have multiple userRoles in DWLControl to which user is associated and the RoV rules are applied on those groups. There are some users (super users) who are par...
about 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Ability to upgrade the MDM database while running docker deployment

Enable the Configure_MDM_Interactive.sh script to perform MDM database upgrade if required. When the script executes, it can take an input from the customer on whether database upgrade has to be performed and can invoke the upgrade if required. Th...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Support for Podman based runtime for launching IBM Infosphere MDM AE Container images

Infosphere MDM container images are pulled from IBM container registry (us.icr.io) using the Docker Compose Yaml files released by IBM for each versions of MDM AE images. Ford Motor Company currently has Redhat Openshift container platform v...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Pagination in Preview Collapse

NB: Case number is TS003080650.Product is Data stewardship UI System : Physical MDMSuspected Duplicate Process Application Description : Major issue - If there are 20 suspects for a party, in preview screen the Right pane will contain 20 party det...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Make 'highlight same' always ON. Currently makes user select highlight buttons every time a task is opened.

In MDM Inspector when opening a task for resolution, we would like to be able to default the "hightlight same" button as always on.
almost 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Survivorship rules for consent

There is no doubt from the many GDPR conversations we've had with clients that there will be many different approaches to survivorship of consent, both in terms of different consents received for the same individual, and in terms of survivorship w...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Implement compression of REST request and reply data

We're using the REST interface. But sometimes we get a lot of data back. E.g. when we retreive a contract with a high inquiry level. Sending this data can be speed up by using gzip (or an other format) as a lot of REST API's already do.
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Use extension and subsitutionGroups in XSD

The MDM data model has you extend entities and the implementation of extensions is done via extending the Java classes. For instance if you extend the Person entity then your generated extension class extends "TCRMPersonBObj", however the Java ext...
about 7 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration