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Master Data Management

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Rationalization of container image sizes for MDM and BAW (IBM Stewardship Center)

We have recently performed an installation of IBM MDM (11.6 FP10) and IBM Stewardship Center on top of BAW (18.0.0.2?) on a containerized environment (Kubernetes). There are practical challenges in handling images of such huge size (running in to ...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Partitioning by region via PME Data Source

MDM v10.1 describes the Data Source for the probabilistic matching tables via PME specific properties files. This has enabled to configure PME Data Source to be different then the Data Source for the rest of the MDM operational tables, in order to...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

MDM AE : Performance overhead due to timestamp field format

As per the Bank's service contract, timestamp must have 'T' in the data to comply the contract validation. (Ex: 2012-03-25T00:00:00.002). But on IBM MDM service response, this T is not available on timestamp which leads to contract validation f...
almost 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

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

Allowing extensions for preferences

on 11.4 workbench, we had a way to enable extension by overriding "extendableInline=true" as indicated bellow. In 11.6 workbench, we tried the same but were not able to get around the restriction. We are in upgrade process and this has become a st...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 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 DB2 / DB2U containers along with MDM

DB2U ( DB2 Universal) containers on DB2 V11.5 went live late last year and currently MDM is not shipping with a production-ready version of DB2 containers and hence we need to evaluate if we can use and start providing Db2 11.5 containers as an en...
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

Sending notifications XA (like) to Kafka

When using a JMS provider you're able to send the notification as part of the XA transaction. For Kafka this is not possible (as per Kafka implementation). Come with a solution so using Kafka for notifications is a usable option (currently not). ...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 3 Not under consideration

Customer specific Kafka resource

Kafka is supported by MDM, but you're not able to create and use you own Kafka resource. You now have to use one of the OOTB resources. We want to be able to split the type of data to be send to different Kafka endpoints.
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration