Common features and entities

InfoSphere® MDM has a collection of common features. The common features are generic in nature and support generic entity types that are associated with them. Common features use EntityName and InstancePK to identify associated entities. The following features are the common features:
  • Access Date value
  • Alert
  • Campaign
  • Content reference
  • Default source value
  • Entity role
  • Entity spec use
  • Event manager
  • Grouping
  • Hierarchy
  • Line of business
  • Macro role
  • Miscellaneous value
  • Party compliance
  • Party critical data change
  • Privacy preferences
  • Questionnaire
  • Task management
  • Terms and condition
  • Interactions
There are two main ways in which the combination of EntityName and InstancePK are used by the common features:
  • Many of the common features validate an entity's existence based on the supplied EntityName and InstancePK combination before they associate the entity with them.
  • Many of the common features use the supplied EntityName and InstancePK combination to load the business objects of the associated entity, and then return the business object.

In previous releases, InfoSphere MDM used EntityNameInstancePK.properties and Ext_EntityNameInstancePK.properties to store the information related to validate an entity existence or load an entity. InfoSphere MDM now uses the updated Transaction and Object Metadata stored in the database.