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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Master Data Management

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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

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

IBM MDM Support of PosgreSQL as repository database

We have got information that such feature is being implemented half year back. We tried to ask about the status via support case and have been forwarded to this tool as the proper channel for the question. Is our information correct that the featu...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

MDM SE: Support newer versions of java in madapi.jar

Currently madapi.jar only works with java 8*. Any newer version breaks due to issues with how java 9 repackaged xml based classes, and any fix will need code changes. Since other java components require newer versions of java (e.g. the latest spri...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

Customer raised concerns over PUT method used by MDM instead they want to use POST

Sharing the concern raised by bank’s security group. If we can address the same please. Thanks If PUT method if enabled, an attacker may be able to place arbitrary and potentially malicious content into the application. Depending on the server's c...
about 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE/SE v11.6.0.11 should be supported supported on Windows 2019 Standard Edition

IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE/SE v11.6.0.11 is currently not supported on Windows 2019 Standard Edition. IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management AE/SE v11.6.0.11 should be supported supported on Windows 2019 Standard Edition
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Enable option to copy party and/or hyperlink on partyID to open its details in new browser tab

Case number TS010189212 We have business requirement to enable option in Lineage node to copy party and/or hyperlink on partyID to open its details in new browser tab. Please advise possibility of this change. PFA Lineage screen snapshot.
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Enable all the method types of Rest APIs instead of limiting the usage to PUT.

Currently in Nordea, we are looking for options where our consumers can directly interact with MDM services through rest apis instead of an intermediate service which eventually increase performance and save the effort for managing multiple compon...
over 2 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

SSO Capability for MDM Consent UI

The Consent Management UI needs to access various backend services (MDM AE, MDM SE, Elastic Search etc.) It is doing this by direct requests from the web browser to the back end services (there is no other layer in between). Authentication works a...
about 3 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Messages not getting added to Kafka EntityId topic through custom services(for custom objects)

To enhance the messaging capability, we tried enabling the kafka functionality of IBM MDM. Steps mentioned in the IBM knowledge center - https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSWSR9_11.6.0/com.ibm.swg.im.mdmhs.kafka.export.doc/topics/kafka_c...
about 3 years ago in Master Data Management 8 Not under consideration