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Search results: Master Data Management

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Add more precision to Timestamp field- MPI_AUDHEAD table

We use MDM 11.6. The timestamp filed in MPI_AUDHEAD table stores time at second level and we want to see if we can add milli/micro/nano seconds to the field.
7 months ago in Master Data Management 1 Under review

Need for multiple database schemas

PMR TS000125312 Starting with MDM v11.0 the installation process does not support different database schema's anymore, which would isolate the MDM Configuration and Management Database tables from the MDM Server database tables.This was supported ...
over 7 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

Fix the Party Relationship Transactions

We’ve recently stubbed our toes on an inconsistency in the implementations of addPartyRelationShip()/getPartyRelationship()/updatePartyRelationship(). The CONTACTREL tables, as well as the transactions above, explicitly represent the relationships...
over 1 year ago in Master Data Management 0 Submitted

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 ...
about 2 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...
over 7 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...
over 5 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...
over 4 years ago in Master Data Management 8 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...
over 5 years ago in Master Data Management 2 Not under consideration

Reports MDM ADMIN Missing Users

for any user that does not belong to the "mdm admin" group. Even internal groups can see limited lists if they are not part of the "mdm admin" group. This "mdm admin" group is the one typically found in the mpi_grphead table with a grprecno 1. T...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 1 Not under consideration

MDM - Replace triggers with temporal tables

At Ford we use MDM software to manage our customer base information. MDM talks to DB2 on ZOS to retrieve customer information. MDM uses DB2 triggers to maintain history data. For large UOW transactions triggers have been a performance bottle neck ...
over 6 years ago in Master Data Management 0 Not under consideration