The MDM Workbench is
a plug-in to the IBM® Rational® Application Developer that
simplifies the construction and maintenance of customized InfoSphere® MDM programming
artifacts.
Note that the MDM Workbench is
in English-only.
The
MDM Workbench includes
tools for generating:
- entity types (also known as data additions), to add a new data
entity.
- data extensions, to extend an existing data entity with additional
attributes.
- behavior extensions, to add new functionality to transactions
or the underlying actions within the transaction.
- query extension, to modify how the data is accessed.
- entity subtypes to provide an inheritance model for data additions.
- InfoSphere MDM metadata
specs, information that describes the shape or form of data.
- product type hierarchy models that can
be used to create a product type hierarchy to the InfoSphere MDM.
The
MDM Workbench has
two main perspectives:
- MDM Development
perspective
- The MDM Development
perspective is
the perspective used in development of extensions and additions for
the physical MDM application.
- MDM
Configuration perspective
- The MDM
Configuration perspective is
the perspective used in configuration of implementations for the virtual
MDM application. For more information, see Overview of the MDM
Configuration perspective:
concepts and features.