New features and changes were introduced for InfoSphere® MDM Version
11.3 along with documentation updates.
General updates
The following items are
new or changed across the various editions of
InfoSphere MDM:
- MDM Application
Toolkit
- The REST Interface has been replaced with integration services
for MDM entity services. The requirement for a REST Interface has
been removed.
There are new coach views and improvements to the
existing coach views. The new MDM Diagram coach view is used to display
relationships between entities in a graphical format. The MDM Compare
coach view is used in combination with the MDM Virtual Suspected Duplicates
coach view to provide a coach for data stewards to resolve potential
duplicate records in Virtual MDM. There is also support for drag and
drop operations between two MDM Tree coach views
For Physical
MDM, there is improved support for more transactions and transaction
control using the integration services. There is support for extensions
by using the integration services and WSDL generation in the MDM Workbench.
Additionally there is performance communicating with the MDM operational
server when using the integration services for CRUD operations.
Changes
to the MDM_Connection business object include support for encrypted
passwords, and the ability to use the MDM_Connection business objects
as an Exposed Process Variable (EPV) and to automate the configuration.
See Using MDM Application
Toolkit.
- ETL operations for virtual MDM implementations
- Through the integration of InfoSphere MDM
11.3 and InfoSphere Information
Server 11.3, ETL operations to support virtual MDM implementations
are provided specifically in InfoSphere DataStage®. You can design InfoSphere DataStage jobs that use the MDM Connector
stage. The MDM Connector stage, based on the interaction mode you
select, is used to read data from an MDM database or to add and update
member data. The Member read interaction uses the MDM MemGet API to
retrieve member data. The Member write interaction uses the MDM MemPut
API to add and update data. See information about loading virtual MDM data with InfoSphere DataStage.
- IBM® Stewardship Center
- IBM Stewardship Center includes
a set of built-in process applications. The process applications are
ready for immediate use to solve your data stewardship requirements,
providing consistent visibility, collaboration, and governance of
your master data. The Stewardship Center allows you to improve master
data quality through proactive exploration and management. In addition,
you can:
- Ensure master data quality tasks are identified, assigned, escalated,
completed, and monitored for effective data stewardship team management.
- Search MDM, update master data, and resolve suspected duplicates.
- View, compare, and update hierarchical and relationship master
data.
- Track team performance, view outstanding and resolved data stewardship
task metrics, and balance team workload with dashboard.
- See an overview of the IBM Stewardship Center.
- MDM metadata export for use in InfoSphere Information Server
- To use MDM data in InfoSphere Information
Server applications, metadata from your MDM project must be exported
to InfoSphere Information
Server. The export wizard in MDM Workbench is used to export virtual
and physical MDM models for use in InfoSphere Information Server 11.3. You
can also export a physical MDM extension model that can be used in InfoSphere Information Server
9.1. To import the 11.3 MDM models into InfoSphere Information Server 11.3, you
use the MDM Connector bridge. See a description of how to export MDM metadata for use in InfoSphere Information Server.
- Privacy and preferences settings
- Party privacy and preferences allow you to store
a person's or organization's choices about how and when they prefer
to be contacted, as well as preferences related to contracts such
as whether to send a hardcopy or electronic account statement. InfoSphere
MDM offers services to store privacy and personal preferences on key
business objects. See a detailed example as well as information about managing party preferences through MDM services.
- Probabilistic Matching Engine for InfoSphere BigInsights™
- With Probabilistic Matching Engine for InfoSphere BigInsights, you can efficiently derive
master data, compare members, resolve members into entities, and do
probabilistic searches. The capability is available with the Enterprise
Edition of IBM InfoSphere MDM. With InfoSphere MDM Version
11.3, Probabilistic Matching Engine for InfoSphere BigInsights now offers additional applications
that run within the InfoSphere BigInsights framework including
extracting, caching, and analyzing entities. In addition, you can
now configure entity linking to run automatically as data is loaded
into the BigInsights framework.
See an introduction to Probabilistic Matching Engine for InfoSphere BigInsights.
- Virtual MDM performance
- This release enhances control of record linking to reduce the
risk of system performance issues. In particular, the release adds
new tasks to account for the linkage scenario in which an entity represents
a large number of records, potentially across several data sources.
The process of breaking apart entities can be difficult and time consuming.
The new maximum entity size task and potential glue member task help to prevent large
entities from forming in the first place.
Installation and upgrade updates
The following
changes and improvements were made to the installation and upgrade
processes for
InfoSphere MDM.
Note: For
information about what's new in Collaboration Server version 11.3,
see the link at the end of this topic.
- Easier process for applying fix packs
- When IBM releases a fix
pack for InfoSphere MDM,
you can now apply it using IBM Installation
Manager. This is available for the Standard Edition and Advanced Edition
of InfoSphere MDM. See detailed information about applying fix packs
- Installation prerequisite checks and verifications
- To help ensure successful installations of InfoSphere MDM, the installation application
now performs a number of validation tests to ensure that all necessary
prerequisites are in place before installing the product. These validations
take place within the main installation flow, and provide you with
the ability to correct errors and warnings before proceeding with
the installation. See information about prerequisite checks for stand-alone installations with DB2® or for custom installations.
- Separation of installation and configuration
- The installation application enables you to install or modify InfoSphere MDM while generating
configuration properties files that you can use to configure the product
at a later point in time. See an overview of the separate installation and configuration
processes.
- Upgrade improvements
- This release supports skip level upgrades that enable you to upgrade
your installation directly from previous releases without intermediate
upgrade steps. For InfoSphere MDM
Server customers upgrading from release 10.1 or earlier, InfoSphere MDM provides an automated upgrade
process if your operating system is UNIX or Linux and if your database is DB2. See an overview of upgrade and a description of the automated upgrade for DB2.
Samples
- Sample: Master Data Extract
- Master data extracts are one of the most common use cases for
ETL operations. To help the transition to InfoSphere DataStage for ETL operations, the Master
Data Extract sample provides you a set of pre-configured InfoSphere DataStage jobs that you can customize to
work in your environment. The jobs work together to comprise the full
set of steps that are required to process incremental extracts from
your MDM database. The master data extract sample uses the MDM Connector
stage with the Member read interaction. See a full description of the sample.
- Sample: MDM Clinical Message Pattern
- The MDM Clinical Message Pattern sample extracts, analyses, and
ingests clinical data from your existing, multi-sourced HL7 messages
into a repository that constructs a Client 360 profile for each patient.
The Client 360 profile, including clinical concepts, are made available
through search services that can be used for building and populating
analytics and cognitive learning applications or systems, such as
the MDM Clinical Patient Search sample or the IBM Healthcare Provider Data Warehouse. See a full description of the sample.
- Sample: MDM Clinical Patient Data Load
- The MDM Clinical Patient Data Load sample is a fictitious data
set that includes sample patient records that contain clinical data
attributes. In addition to demographic information such as Name and
Date of Birth, the Clinical Patient Data Load sample includes Symptom,
Disease, Encounter, Procedure, Medication, Observation, and Family
History concepts. The sample data set can be viewed in MDM Inspector
or searched in the MDM Clinical Patient Search sample. See a full description of the sample.
- Sample: MDM Clinical Patient Search
- The MDM Clinical Patient Search sample is a web application that
defines queries of patient cohort attributes (such as age, medications,
and diagnosis) and searches the Client 360 repository for patient
cohorts that match the attributes. The MDM Clinical Patient Search
sample returns information about each matching patient cohort. This
information can be used to identify the optimum patient cohorts for
research studies, clinical trials, and quality improvement initiatives,
for example. See a full description of the sample.
- Sample: MpxData
- The MpxData sample enables you to use the InfoSphere DataStage Java™ Integration
stage with the functionality of the MDM MpxData utility. MpxData processes
several steps, beginning with parsing data into UNL files to deriving
data and organizing member records into buckets. MpxData also creates
binary files, which are used to compare data faster than scanning
through strings. MpxData parses raw data extracts into attribute-specific
sets of data. InforSphere DataStage jobs
that use MpxData can also be used to load data to the MDM database.
See a full description of the sample.
- Sample: Salesforce.com integration
- The InfoSphere MDM
and Salesforce.com integration sample contains a set of prebuilt artifacts
and integration capabilities that can be used to jump-start an integration
between these two applications. The sample supports real-time integration
and near real-time asynchronous integration between Salesforce.com
and on-premises InfoSphere MDM,
along with bulk MDM data extraction. The InfoSphere MDM and Salesforce.com integration
sample includes:
- WebSphere® Cast Iron® orchestrations for
the integration scenarios
- An InfoSphere DataStage job that can be
used for bulk extraction of data from InfoSphere MDM and loading that data into
Salesforce.com
- Salesforce.com project artifacts
- A sample project for illustrating behavior extension bundle
- A preconfigured Hybrid Party model .imm file for MDM Workbench
- Test data
See a full description of the sample.
Documentation updates
New animated diagrams
with flyouts, drill-throughs, and hovers provide interactive representations
of complex concepts and processes:
New troubleshooting and support topics help you understand,
isolate, and resolve issues with InfoSphere MDM.
See the topics about virtual and physical MDM or the topics about collaborative MDM.
Deprecated components
The following components
were deprecated in this release and might become obsolete:
- Initiate Inspector
GSA
- Provider Direct
- Support for the Solaris operating system
- Support for legacy JAX-RPC Web Services
Removed components
The following components
were removed in this release. The functionality is no longer available
or supported.
- Enterprise Integrator
- The Enterprise Integrator was removed from this release. The component
is also known as the InfoSphere MDM
Healthcare Point of Service Integrator.
- CloverETL
- The product no longer offers support for the CloverETL component
of InfoSphere MDM
Workbench.
CloverETL has been replaced by InfoSphere DataStage, which is accessible
in two ways:
- The MDM Connector stage uses the MDM MemGet and MemPut APIs to
retrieve (read) members from MDM data, and insert or update (write)
member data. You can use the MDM Connector stage to create InfoSphere DataStage jobs that use either the Member
read or Member write interaction.
- You can download MDM samples from the IBM Samples and Assets site. Samples include
MpxData and Master Data Extract. See the list of samples in the "General
updates" section of this topic.
For more information about CloverETL or to purchase CloverETL
in order to support data transformations made for use with MDM, visit
the CloverETL website: http://www.cloveretl.com/ibm-mdm
- Other removed components and capabilities
- DEST Wizard
- Hub Export Wizard
- Support for the 32-bit Windows operating
system
IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management, Version 11.3