MDM Registry Edition Rulebase contains the rules that describe Systems. An MDM Registry Edition Database is the implementation of those rules, and the database contains IDTs and IDXs.
The Rulebase and Database are physically implemented as a set of tables and indexes in a relation database.
MDM Registry Edition supports multiple Database Management Systems, and the Rulebase and Database names consist of the following components:
Database interface to use
Interface-specific information
The name uses the following syntax:
Interface:Interface_specific
Interface
identifies the database interface to access the DBMS. The supported values are as follows:
odb
. Specifies the ODBC interface. Supported target database types are Oracle, UDB/DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server. You can also use other ODBC data sources for unsynchronized source access.
ids.
Specifies the Dictionary Alias. You can use
ssa
instead of
ids
.
The format of the
Interface_specific
information is described in the following sections: