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.