Globalization

InfoSphere® MDM Workbench can be viewed in alternate languages.

As is the case with all InfoSphere MDM clients, if an organization has multi-language requirements, operational server configuration can only be displayed in one language at a time. The language in which the application appears is dependent on the language specified in your operating system settings; the default setting is U.S. English.

To accommodate translation into other languages, any dates entered in the application are in the ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD). The first four digits are always assumed by the InfoSphere MDM to be the year.

True dates returned from the operational server database are formatted based on the operating system default. True dates are those dates required to be valid and complete. For example, the Last Modified Date in a U.S. English operating system setting might display as 2004-08-14. An operating system set to display French might display the date as 8 Jul 2004.

An assumption on the formatting of non-true dates (values that are not required to be valid or complete) cannot be made for a given locale. These dates are retrieved from the database and are displayed as they exist in the database.

All labels, such as buttons for Add and Edit, are retrieved from operational server configuration resource bundles. Such labels display in the language setting of the operating system. Labels such as Member Type are retrieved from the operational server database and are in the database-specified language. Entity and member types (for example, Identity and Person) are labels defined in the operational server database and cannot be displayed in the local language.

Some labels are combinations of storage locale and have the ability to be formatted appositionally.

Error messages sent to the operating system (for example. “No record found based on the input criteria”), and thus seen by users, display in the localized language. However, error messages sent to log files are only in U.S. English.

Not all aspects of InfoSphere MDM (names of database objects, property files, and so forth) can be in non-English languages, such as Kanji. For example, segments and attributes cannot be created by using Japanese characters in the MDM Workbench.