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Master Data Management

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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

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...
12 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Current IBM MDM versions 12.x and 11.x uses Log4j 1.2.6 version which is Outdated, officially end of life from Apache and it is no longer maintained.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...
over 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
almost 3 years ago in Master Data Management 6 Not under consideration

Increase Source Code and Source Name Length in IBM MDM SE

We are in middle of migrating our MDM system from one of the other Vendor to IBM InfoSphere MDM Standard Edition. There are some source codes which are of length greater than 12 characters and source names which are off length greater than 40 char...
over 3 years ago in Master Data Management 2 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...
about 4 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration