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  • Multidomain MDM 10.4
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Informatica updates guides for each Multidomain MDM hotfix release as needed. If you download a published guide for a previous release from this page, the content was not updated.

Release Information

Release Guide

Read the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Release Guide to learn about new features and enhancements, behavior changes between versions, and support changes. The Release Guide also includes information about tasks that you might need to complete after you upgrade from a previous version.

Release Notes

Read the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Release Notes to learn about known and fixed limitations, enhancements, and support changes. The Multidomain MDM Release Notes also include information about installation and upgrade issues and workarounds.

Getting Started

Multidomain MDM Documentation at a Glance

Read the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Documentation at a Glance to learn about the guides that are relevant to you. The Multidomain MDM Documentation at a Glance recommends guides, lists the reading order of guides, and summarizes each guide.

Help for Users

Data Director User Guide

Use the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Data Director User Guide to learn how to create, consume, manage, and monitor master data in Data Director. You can manage business entity records or subject area records. Learn how to manage records, manage relationships between records, and update records.

Data Steward Guide

Use the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Data Steward Guide to learn how to use the tools in the Data Steward Workbench in the MDM Hub Console. You can consolidate and manage data. Learn how to use the Merge Manager, Data Manager and Hierarchy Manager tools in the MDM Hub Console. This guide assumes that you have a basic understanding of …

Help for Administrators

ActiveVOS® Setup Guide

See the Informatica® Multidomain MDM ActiveVOS Setup Guide to learn about ActiveVOS, the default workflow engine for Informatica Multidomain MDM. Understand how to configure workflow tasks and triggers. Ensure that updates to records and hierarchy relationships move through a change-approval workflow.

Business Process Manager (BPM) Adapter SDK Implementation Guide

Use the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Business Process Manager Adapter SDK Implementation Guide to learn how to implement a BPM Adapter, which the MDM Hub and Informatica Data Director use to communicate with a BPM engine. Learn how to implement a BPM Adapter using the SDK interfaces to integrate to an external workflow engine.

Cleanse Adapter Guide

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Cleanse Adapter Guide to configure the supported cleanse engines that you want to use with Multidomain MDM. You use cleanse engines to cleanse, transform, and validate your master data. The guide also includes prerequisites and test procedures for the cleanse engines.

Configuration Guide

Follow the instructions in the Informatica®Multidomain MDM Configuration Guide to configure the Informatica MDM Hub system. Learn how to use the MDM Hub Console tools to build data models, configure data flows, execute processes and configure application access. This guide assumes that you have read the Multidomain MDM Overview Guide and …

Data Controls Implementation Guide

Refer to the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Data Controls Implementation Guide to learn how to configure user interface controls to expose and embed MDM Hub data in third-party applications. Learn how to implement and configure tasks in IDC. Also, learn how to configure IDC using the Informatica Data Director Configuration Manager. This guide …

Data Director Implementation Guide

Use the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Data Director Implementation Guide to learn how to configure an application for Informatica Data Director that uses the subject area model. Learn about subject areas, implementation processes for applications, and manual Data Director configurations. For information about how to configure an application for …

Data Director Migration Guide

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Data Director Migration Guide to migrate your Data Director applications from subject areas to business entities, which are the preferred data structure for applications. In addition to the migration tasks, the guide highlights the differences between subject areas and business entities …

Performance Tuning Guide

See the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Performance Tuning Guide to learn how to optimize the overall performance of Multidomain MDM within the database and the application server environments.

Provisioning Tool Guide

Use the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Provisioning Tool Guide to learn how to use the Provisioning tool to configure business entities, business entity views, transformations, Informatica Data Director applications, tasks, relationships, and full-text search. You can create a Data Director application and design pages and views to display master data.

Repository Manager Guide

Refer to the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Repository Manager Guide for information about the Repository Manager tool of the MDM Hub Console. Learn how to use the tool to validate metadata for repositories, copy objects from one repository to another, export repositories, and visualize repository schemas.

Resource Kit Guide

Refer to the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Resource Kit Guide for information about tools, samples, and other resources that are included in the Multidomain MDM Resource Kit. Learn how to use the tools to perform tasks such as automation, batch processing, encryption, and reporting. Understand the samples such as an Operational Reference …

Security Guide

Use the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Security Guide to learn how to enable security in Multidomain MDM. Understand how to use the Security Access Manager to secure MDM Hub resources and use Dynamic Data Masking to prevent access to sensitive data. Learn how to manage users and groups, and how to use permissions, privileges, and roles to …

Reference Material

Business Entity Services Guide

See the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Business Entity Services Guide to learn about the business entity services available as web services. Use the guide to learn how to use Enterprise Java Beans (EJB), Representational State Transfer (REST), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), and external web service calls to perform operations on …

Overview Guide

Read the Informatica ® Multidomain MDM Overview Guide to learn about the Multidomain MDM architecture and key concepts. The Multidomain MDM Overview Guide includes information about master data management, the MDM Hub, core components, and tools. Also, learn about the main inbound and outbound data flows for the MDM Hub, batch processing, …

Sample ORS Guide

Refer to the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Sample ORS Guide to familiarize yourself with the Operational Reference Store (ORS) configuration. The sample ORS is a repository that is used with the sample applications included in the Multidomain MDM Resource Kit. Understand the ORS configurations related to the data model, data cleansing, and match rules.

Services Integration Framework Guide

Use the Services Integration Framework (SIF) to integrate the Informatica® MDM Hub functionality with your applications. The Multidomain MDM Services Integration Framework Guide explains how to access the data that the MDM Hub provides by using APIs. This guide assumes that you have a working knowledge of MDM Hub and are familiar …

Installation and Upgrade

Infrastructure Planning Guide

Read the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Infrastructure Planning Guide before you plan the infrastructure and the architecture of the Multidomain MDM environment. The guide also includes sample installation topologies.

Installation Guide for IBM Db2 with Red Hat JBoss

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Installation Guide to install and set up Multidomain MDM in the supported database and application server environment of your choice. In addition to the installation tasks, the guide includes pre-installation and post-installation tasks.

Installation Guide for IBM Db2 with WebSphere

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Installation Guide to install and set up Multidomain MDM in the supported database and application server environment of your choice. In addition to the installation tasks, the guide includes pre-installation and post-installation tasks.

Installation Guide for Microsoft SQL Server with IBM WebSphere

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Installation Guide to install and set up Multidomain MDM in the supported database and application server environment of your choice. In addition to the installation tasks, the guide includes pre-installation and post-installation tasks.

Installation Guide for Microsoft SQL Server with Oracle WebLogic

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Installation Guide to install and set up Multidomain MDM in the supported database and application server environment of your choice. In addition to the installation tasks, the guide includes pre-installation and post-installation tasks.

Installation Guide for Microsoft SQL Server with Red Hat JBoss

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Installation Guide to install and set up Multidomain MDM in the supported database and application server environment of your choice. In addition to the installation tasks, the guide includes pre-installation and post-installation tasks.

Installation Guide for Oracle Database with IBM WebSphere

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Installation Guide to install and set up Multidomain MDM in the supported database and application server environment of your choice. In addition to the installation tasks, the guide includes pre-installation and post-installation tasks.

Installation Guide for Oracle Database with Red Hat JBoss

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Installation Guide to install and set up Multidomain MDM in the supported database and application server environment of your choice. In addition to the installation tasks, the guide includes pre-installation and post-installation tasks.

Installation Guide for Oracle Database with WebLogic

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Installation Guide to install and set up Multidomain MDM in the supported database and application server environment of your choice. In addition to the installation tasks, the guide includes pre-installation and post-installation tasks.

Upgrading from Version 10.1, 10.2, or 10.3

Follow the instructions in the Informatica® Multidomain MDM Upgrade Guide to upgrade your Multidomain MDM implementation to the most recent version. When you upgrade, ensure that you use the Multidomain MDM Upgrade Guide that applies to the currently installed version.

Getting Started

Getting Started with Embedded ActiveVOS in Multidomain MDM 10.4 or later

A bundled, licensed version of Informatica ActiveVOS Server is the default workflow engine for Informatica Multidomain MDM. This document describes how to configure and use the ActiveVOS Server with MDM.

Configure

Configuring charts for a Data Director dashboard

Charts visually display data about business entity records, tasks, and other types of information. Charts are secondary components that you can configure and add to a page layout in the Provisioning tool. This article explains how to configure charts and add them to a page layout in the Provisioning tool.

Configuring Hierarchy and Network Relationships

You can use the Provisioning tool to configure hierarchy and network relationships between business entities. This article describes how to configure hierarchy and network relationships between business entities.

Creating Match Rule Sets in Provisioning Tool

You can use the Provisioning tool to create match rule sets based on a sample data and the match training. This article describes how to create match rule sets using the Provisioning tool.

Implementing a Persistent Identifier Module in Multidomain MDM

This article explains how to implement the Persistent Identifier Module to determine which persistent ID for a cross-reference record survives on the base object record.

Match Rule Configuration Example

To match and merge duplicate records in the MDM Hub, you need to configure match rules. Use base object attributes to configure match rules. This article walks you through an example of how to configure match rules that the MDM Hub uses to match duplicate records in a base object.

MDM Hierarchy Configuration Tutorial

MDM hierarchies show the relationships between the records in the MDM Hub. You need to configure an MDM hierarchy before you can populate the hierarchy with data. This tutorial describes how to use the Hierarchies tool in the MDM Hub Console to configure a product hierarchy that organizes products into product groups.

MDM Hub Java User Exits

The MDM Hub user exits are based on Java code. This article describes the Java user exits, explains how to implement Java user exits, and describes best practices to follow when you implement user exits.

Integrate

Multidomain MDM: How to set up Kerberos in a WebSphere environment

You can set up MIT Kerberos when you install the MDM Hub and use the MDM Hub to securely authenticate database connection requests. This document helps you to install the MDM Hub and to set up Kerberos authentication for the MDM Hub environment.

Optimize and Tune

Writing Custom Scripts to Execute Batch Jobs

You can create custom scripts to run batch jobs and batch groups in an Informatica MDM Hub implementation. You can use the Batch Viewer and Batch Group tools to configure and run Informatica MDM Hub batch jobs. This article is intended for implementation teams and system administrators.

Security

Using the Security Configuration Utility in Multidomain MDM

You can use the security configuration utility to manage some of the security settings in an MDM Hub implementation. Use the utility to change the hashing algorithm used in the MDM Hub, change the certificate provider and reset the passwords of the MDM Hub users. You can also use the security configuration utility to update the customer …

Install and Upgrade

Migrating IDD Applications to the Business Entity Data Model

Before MDM Multidomain Edition version 10.0, you configured Informatica Data Director (IDD) to use the subject area data model. In version 10.0, IDD adopted the use of the business entity data model. The subject area data model differs significantly from the business entity data model, and the task to migrate an IDD application to the business …

Replacing User Exits in IDD Applications

To use the new REST APIs and data views in Informatica Data Director (IDD) 10.1 and later, you must migrate your applications from the subject area data model to the business entity data model. You cannot migrate user exits, but you can replicate the behavior of some types of user exits by using external calls. This document tells you which …
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