Known Issues

The table lists the known issues in version 9.1.0 of TIBCO MDM.

Known Issues
Key Summary
CIM-26085 Summary: The ActiveSpaces security for golden record cache does not work.

Workaround: None.

CIM-26082 Summary: Add record UI page with relationships shows the red indicator in the relationship tree when user does not enter any data or does not select the validate action.

Workaround: None.

CIM-26037 Summary: The Record web service or REST service does not work with RECORD_STATE having multiple options in it.

Workaround: Execute the service with a single option.

CIM-26031 Summary: If you purge an indexed record, the record is not deleted from the child Netrics table.

Workaround: None.

CIM-26030 Summary: Rollback event up to selected step does not work for in-memory workflow event.

Workaround: None.

CIM-26021 Summary: After migrating from version 8.3.2 to version 9.1.0, an error message is displayed when you add records for the Link to Metadata type custom UI page. However, the records are added successfully.

Workaround: Use TIBCO MDM Studio 5.1.0 release to migrate the studio project and then redeploy the custom pages to link to the metadata operations.

CIM-26013 Summary: TIBCO MDM server fails to index records when indexing the relationship attributes in the normalized index entities.

Workaround: None.

CIM-25982 Summary: Record merge event shows as "In-Memory" on the Show History page.

Workaround: None.

CIM-25868 Summary: The AM and PM timestamp type is displayed in the specific native locale instead of AM/PM. This issue occurs because the TIBCO MDM server does not use the user profile's locale for the formatting timestamp that is displayed to the user. The TIBCO MDM server picks the default server locale.

Workaround: None.

CIM-25792 Summary: Bundle cache does not work as expected when Apache Ignite is used as the Cache type.

Workaround: None.

CIM-25643 Summary: The TIBCO MDM Server does not start with Apache Ignite and golden record cache when too many enterprises are configured.

Workaround: None.

CIM-25606 Summary: When you run pgAdmin4.exe from $MQ_HOME\bin\pgsql\pgAdmin4\bin, a black screen is displayed. The issue occurs if you have installed PostgreSQL on a Windows 2008 Server.

Workaround: None.

CIM-25587 Summary: Copying a repository with the manual classification scheme does not copy over the classification scheme and the classification level to the copied repository.

Workaround: None.

CIM-25519 Summary: The Compare Record REST service does not support comparison of relationship records and relationship attributes.

Workaround: None.

CIM-25472 Summary: The Record Query web service does not support querying work items with the following filters: EventReference, RecordAttribute, WorkitemType, and DocumentType.

Workaround: None.

CIM-25327 Summary: Attribute group name with multibyte characters is not accessible on the Browse and Search screen. The issue occurs only on the Mozilla Firefox browser.

Workaround: None.

CIM-25006 Summary: Generating Record ID through rulebase constraint for child records during Record Copy Action is not supported.

Workaround: None.

CIM-24785 Summary: Geo analytics configuration does not allow you to define address cleansing as enterprise specific.

Workaround: None.

CIM-24226 Summary: After clicking the GEO Tab on the Record UI screen, a pop-up with a list of addresses based on the location is displayed even though the Lookup button was not clicked.

Workaround: Close the pop-up.

CIM-24202 Summary: The scale for decimal type values cannot exceed seven for adding records.

Workaround: None.

CIM-24144 Summary: The data transfer feature has problems with the custom decimal type on a Microsoft SQL server.

Workaround: None.

CIM-24007 Summary: The View record screen of the Data Quality work item UI only shows the Quick Export option for child records.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23971 Summary: If a parent record has three relationships with the same grand-child, it is not indexed in the Netrics table.

Workaround: Break the record bundle.

CIM-23970 Summary: When setting "Allow record saved as unconfirmed without workflow" as deny and sending a REST post request with validate equal to true and process equal to false, the record is added as "Unconfirmed".

Workaround: None.

CIM-23965 Summary: The use of child attributes in a matching-attribute list for scheduler duplicate detection throws an error in the logs.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23872 Summary: The synchronization profile fails at the ConvertRecordToOutput activity because the CatalogReference details are not populated as a part of the GetItem activity.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23832 Summary: When executing web services and REST GET records by repository name requests with the work item ID and record state parameters, the web services response contains the records in the draft state but the REST response is empty.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23808 Summary: With Text Search on the UI, the value of 'search in' changes after the record operation..

Workaround: None.

CIM-23801 Summary: With the all-in-one installer, the Process Definition Selection contains the same action twice: "Wfin26dqcatsourcev1.xml-Process for data source update and import with DQ".

Workaround: None.

CIM-23772 Summary: Search requests with supported operators with supported data types gives an invalid result.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23755 Summary: When importing duplicate records, merging each record from the first page of the work item details, and then when clicking an already merged record, the application throws a null pointer exception.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23712 Summary: Direct merge after modifying a record deletes the source record from the netrics table.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23709 Summary: For POST add records with invalid values for relationship attributes of different data type, the response contains an invalid error message and the record is added on the UI without relationship attribute values.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23705 Summary: When executing a POST add record request with a different timestamp format, the relationship attribute of the different timestamp type is not added on the UI and the response contains an invalid error message.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23702 Summary: Perspective is not working with child record attributes.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23681 Summary: Data Quality does not show the correct order of matching child records.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23651 Summary: The "Data Service Update" event succeeds even though there is no metadata present in the target enterprise.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23641 Summary: Only the child record is shown on the Browse page of Event Details when a self related output map is used with different sync format for synchronization.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23633 Summary: When searching for an attribute in the Configure window, no attribute is shown even if the exact attribute name is searched.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23624 Summary: Users are not able to search record details if the milliseconds "S" value is 030 or 30 on the record.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23612 Summary: There is a pagination mismatch on the "Synchronization Profile" page and other UI pages.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23600 Summary: The multivalue file type attribute is not supported through UIBuilder.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23593 Summary: A GET request with a repository name and record count and record index value as 1 gives an empty response.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23501 Summary: When specifying the "Record Count" and "Start Index" value from the query parameter, the Search Post request does not work correctly.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23485 Summary: When using the rest service delete operation, and in the case of using the reverse self relationship, the operation may also delete the parent record.

Workaround: Use the delete REST service to delete the parent record.

CIM-23453 Summary: When selecting Check Existence for more than one relationship on the UI, a parallel line after the Check Existence check box and the Count check box after the second relationship is shown.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23450 Summary: When adding a duplicate child record from source to target, validation does not throw an error.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23442 Summary: In text search, when the child record is matched for the searched string, the same matching score is shown to all the remaining child records.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23419 Summary: The Is defined and the Not defined operators are not working with the REST services..

Workaround: None.

CIM-23411 Summary: In text search, users are not able to search for a timestamp attribute value along with one searchable text string.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23401 Summary: All the input/output parameters for the "Show more Details" section on the View Event Details page for Data Transfer event (Load Data Source and Import Records) are not enhanced.

Workaround: More information regarding this event can be found in the Additional Data section on the View Event Details page and in the Event Log file.

CIM-23393 Summary: A mandatory defined rule does not work for relationship attributes with REST web services.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23326 Summary: The Show Different Values option is not available on the Merge Record Details page in the 9.0.1 version of TIBCO MDM. This functionality was available in the 8.3.2 version. Due to the redesign of the merge work item, this functionality is hard to display and therefore requested to add back.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23256

Summary: The work item summary filter does not work correctly if the attribute value starts with a space.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23239 Summary: Multivalue attributes are not supported for the work item summary filters. The ordering and depth cannot be easily predicted.

Workaround: None.

CIM-23166 Summary: Join entity is not indexed after direct load.

Workaround: Reindex the join entity.

CIM-23100 Summary: A record post request with an invalid syntax for multivalue attributes gives a record add success message in the JSON response.

Workaround: None.

CIM-22817 Summary: A boolean attribute is rendered in lower case letters on the UI if the record renderer customization is used.

Workaround: None.

CIM-22757 Summary: The command line utility datacleanup.bat/sh did not clear an enterprise in a single attempt.
Workaround: Run the utility multiple times. For example,
./datacleanup.sh -o repository -a <EnterpriseID>
or
./datacleanup.sh -o repository -an TEST -rn ALL -mn admin
CIM-22711 Summary: After incremental deployment, a null pointer exception occurs on creating a record.
Workaround: In the case of incremental deployment of metadata, if the following operations are performed on any repository having perspectives, you must select those perspectives while importing the metadata:
  • deleted related repository and repository attributes
  • updated relationships
CIM-22666 Summary: Exporting relationship output map through the export wizard UI is not supported.

Workaround: Export metadata using XML file.

CIM-22655 Summary: With data quality merge, the relationship attributes are not merged during the direct merge.

Workaround: None

CIM-22611 Summary: In the Merge UI (Manual Merge and Work Item Merge) the drop-down lists are not editable. Inline editing is disabled.

Workaround: None.

CIM-22516 Summary: Subset rule with a list option throws an error when the datasource attribute of a type other than string is used in the filter criterion with a non-string attribute repository.

Workaround: Use the string attribute in the datasource.

CIM-22436 Summary: Related records are not loaded on Internet Explorer 11 after using globalized data.

Workaround: None.

CIM-22347 Summary: Roll back for item corrected record version does not rollback manual classification.

Workaround: None.

CIM-22345 Summary: Rollback for corrected record version does not rollback manual classification.

Workaround: None.

CIM-22333 Summary: Event rollback does not work correctly when future dated records are modified by changing the effective date.

Workaround: None.

CIM-22252 Summary: Rollback of correction does not work correctly when relationships need to be reverted.

Workaround: Manually revert the relationship using database queries.

CIM-22141 Summary: The standard and velosel folders are created in the$MQ_HOME/common folder even though the customized path is provided while installing TIBCO MDM.
Workaround:
  • Update the value for the $MQ_COMMON_DIR environment variable

    or

  • Copy the standard and velosel folders from the $MQ_HOME/common folder to $MQ_COMMON_DIR
CIM-22128 Summary: The back button on the error popup window triggered through the inbox with access restriction is not working.

Workaround: Close the error window.

CIM-21884 Summary: Running purge in the repository or enterprise mode might not purge everything due to deadlocks.

Workaround: Purge records and metadata separately.

CIM-21661 Summary: When a record is in workflow and the work item is not locked, a different user can browse and search the record, and then modify it.

Workaround: None

CIM-21645 Summary: The FILE type attributes are not supported with Precedence Management.

Workaround: None.

CIM-21198 Summary: When the textIndexMigration utility is run in a clustered environment, the updated index entity is not available on all nodes of the cluster.

Workaround: None

CIM-20873 Summary: When a record version is corrected multiple times using the Correction action, the Version History page shows an incorrect name for the member who modified or corrected that version. All rows on the history page for that version shows the name of the member who corrected it last.

Workaround: None.

CIM-20871 Summary: Sometimes using an output map to filter the result of a record query service call on a SQL server can cause an error.

Workaround: None

CIM-20801 Summary: Instead of browser-based drop-down lists, some pages on the UI display custom drop-down lists for the pagination bar.

Workaround: None

CIM-20426 Summary: Special characters, such as the forward slash (/) and back slash (\), are not permitted as part of the index entity names.

Workaround: None

CIM-20212 Summary: Special characters (such as the ASCII control characters) are not handled correctly when writing attributes containing them are written out to the HTML page or are included in the URL. This includes PRODUCTID and PRODUCTIDEXT.

Workaround: None

CIM-20165 Summary: When using the Correction action to remove a relationship and then another item correction request to create the same relationship again, it does not create the relationship.

Workaround: None.

CIM-20073 Summary: If a record contained non-Japanese double-byte character sets (DBCS) characters, the Connect action fails. The issue occurs on the SQL Server database.

Workaround: None

CIM-19752 Summary: The Custom Decimal data type considers the minus (-) or the plus (+) symbol as a digit in the precision.

Workaround: Plan the custom decimal one digit larger than what the actual size requires.

CIM-19704 Summary: The hot deployment feature does not work as expected in the case of customization of the landing page.

Workaround: None.

CIM-19532 Summary: For certain customized workflows, the parent records version gets increased without any modifications done to it's attributes.

Workaround: None

CIM-19445 Summary: The Moddate value is not updated correctly in the MEMBER and MEMBERHISTORY tables when the user is changed or deleted.

Workaround: None

CIM-19293 Summary: Merging of two records with a multilevel classification scheme and the category specific attributes does not work in specific cases.

Workaround: None.

CIM-19256 Summary: The Detected Old Installation window is not displayed when you select the Migration option in Configurator to migrate from the older version to the 8.3.2 version.

Workaround: Manually migrate by entering the old version and home directory.

CIM-19201 Summary: The record attribute modification is not updated on the record UI, if the record attributes are edited first, followed by the classification scheme. Only the classification scheme modification is updated.

Workaround: None.

CIM-19128 Summary: Importing repository metadata with the synchronization format fails with the following error: CAT-1027: Stale data; data modified by another user or process. The issue occurs on the PostgreSQL database.

Workaround: Import synchronization format first and then the repository metadata.

CIM-19037 Summary: The UI search with the Check Existence drop-down list does not work correctly, if second level relationships are involved.

Workaround: None.

CIM-18893 Summary: The Process Comment History section is not available on the Import Approval work item screen with the corresponding business process rule.

Workaround: None.

CIM-18869 Summary: The ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended exception occurs when slice action is used with the datasource and the datasource name has a hyphen (-) character.

Workaround: None.

CIM-18614 Summary: When using the Add or Modify SOAP web service with a grandchild is present in the request, the version sometimes increases for the sibling child without any changes saved.

Workaround: None

CIM-18221 Summary: The Record Modify web service with Version_Policy=Correct can correct the UNCONFIRMED record version to make it CONFIRMED. The existing STATE and new STATE are different, and therefore, this is invalid based on the correction version policy.

Workaround: None.

CIM-17833 Summary: While exporting the permissions from the TIBCO MDM UI, the following error occurs: Relationship Not Found for the resourceID <resource ID>.

Workaround: None.

CIM-17825 Summary: Add role based permissions to custom menu items does not work in all scenarios.

Workaround: None

CIM-17679 Summary: The Update Synchronization Status and Send Response options are not available on the new record UI.

Workaround: None.

CIM-17214 Summary: The PARENT rulebase context variable is not evaluated correctly when the related record is added using the reverse relationship.

Workaround: None.

CIM-16963 Summary: MQ_COMMON_DIR is empty when TIBCO MDM is installed using the Silent Installer, even after you specify the commonConfig_useDefault key as false and provide the correct path for the commonConfig_directory and tibco.cim.common.dir keys.

Workaround: None

CIM-16943 Summary: When using the Metadata Export GUI wizard, it is possible to select the predefined TIBCO synchronization format, has missing column names, which is causing a schema validation error for imports being attempted on exports containing this predefined format.

Workaround: None

CIM-16893 Summary: The uncategorized action based on a number of classification code paths does not work consistently.

Workaround: None.

CIM-16844 Summary: The scheduler duplicate detection process does not work correctly if the two indexes share the same repository name as the primary or parent, that is, a single repository withIndexEntity joinTable="false" and a cross-repository with IndexEntity joinTable="true" index. In this case, overlapping indexes, records from matching child records from the cross-repository index are also returned.

Workaround: None.

CIM-16530 Summary: The indexed attributes in the IndexerConfig.xml file are not automatically updated when the attribute name is changed, and the repository is incrementally deployed.

Workaround: Edit the attribute definition in the IndexerConfig.xml file.

CIM-16471 Summary: With the data quality match and merge workflow, while having the source record merged with a target record through DirectMerge (the source record has only one target match candidate record), if the source and target records have different related records, the related record for the source record does not get merged to the target record in spite of having the ImplicitRelationshipMerge parameter set as true in the DirectMerge activity.

Workaround: None.

CIM-16274 Summary: Inconsistent behavior in the user interface when using repository names starting with a number.

Workaround: Avoid using number leading repository names.

CIM-16021 Summary: The ManageRecordCollection activity bundles all the records in the workflow as opposed to the records which are part of the InRecordlist passed.

Workaround: None.

CIM-15873 Summary: The response of the GetImportEventDetails web service does not return valid counters after the server restarts.

Workaround: None.

CIM-15732 Summary: The Record Query web service does not work when using the EFFECTIVEDATE relationship attribute in the Context variable.

Workaround: None.

CIM-15727 Summary: An exception is thrown while creating a work item for a large number of users in the specified role. The exception occurs when formatting user names to display them in the Event log screen.
Workaround: To avoid the exception and disable the formatting of user names, add the Formatting User Name property in Configurator (Tools > Add Configuration Value). Specifying the False value disables the formatting of user names. Enter the following details in each field:
  • Configuration value name: Formatting User Name
  • Internal name: com.tibco.cim.workflow.formatUserName
  • Version: 8.2
  • Visibility: Advanced
  • Description: Formatted user names are displayed in the Event log screen. By default, specify the True value. Setting this property to False disables the formatting of user names.
  • Current Value: False
  • Default Value: True
  • Category: Workflows
Limitation: Currently, the database schema supports only 8000 characters for stateparam in the Processstate table. The exception occurs if the combined length of user names and the process state exceeds more than 8000 characters. The fix does not remove this limitation.
CIM-15307 Summary: Import of the MassUpdate rulebase fails if another rulebase is deployed with the same name.

Workaround: None.

CIM-15306 Summary: Export of the MassUpdate rulebase fails if another rulebase is deployed with the same name.

Workaround: None.

CIM-15305 Summary: Export of included rulebases defined for a decision table fails.

Workaround: None.

CIM-15187 Summary: Classification Scheme was not displayed on the "Record Review and Rejection" page.

Workaround: None.

CIM-15085 Summary: An SQL statement contains multibyte characters when you start import with the input map. This causes the Oracle error ORA-936 error.

Workaround: None.

CIM-15033 Summary: Modifying a record, with a Checkpoint activity in the workflow and an REA business process rule set results in NullPointerException. If the workflow is suspended, the workflow details may not be persisted correctly. It may cause problems while opening the workitem.

Workaround: None.

CIM-15032 Summary: Deleting a record, with a Checkpoint activity in the workflow and an RDA business process rule set results in NullPointerException. If the workflow is suspended, the workflow details may not be persisted correctly. It may cause problems while opening the workitem.

Workaround: None.

CIM-15028 Summary: Adding a record with a Checkpoint activity in the workflow and a NRIE business process rule set results in NullPointerException. If the workflow is suspended, the workflow details may not be persisted correctly. It may cause problems while opening the workitem.

Workaround: None.

CIM-14972 Summary: The timestamp based classification tree entries use a uniform format, which is not the same as that of user-selected preferences.

Workaround: None.

CIM-14847 Summary: A web service request with a timestamp format different from that selected by its user results in a response with an unclear error message.

Workaround: None.

CIM-14617 Summary: If the length of a relationship attribute is changed (from default to 512), the column length of the RELATIONSHIPATTRIBUTE (RCT) table is not altered even if the attribute length in the CATALOGATTRIBUTE table is updated.

Workaround: Manually adjust the column length.

CIM-14338 Summary: If the record is in the latest version, the record cannot be modified through the Record UI.

Workaround: None.

CIM-13882 Summary: Comparing two dates with <gt> in the rulebase does not always work correctly.

Workaround: None.

CIM-13744 Summary: For purge, when a shutdown is initiated while the purge is running in the background, exceptions occur on the application server console and elink.log. Also, the event state remains in progress.

Workaround: None.

CIM-13680 Summary: For the download link to appear, the Export Metadata Profile page needs a page refresh (F5) after exporting a previously created profile.

Workaround: None.

CIM-13144 Summary: The parameter value is overwritten to null, if you use an internal parameter of the same workflow in one activity having an input from the output parameter of another activity.

Workaround: None.

CIM-13128 Summary: Emails sent from the timed out work items are sent multiple times than expected.

Workaround: None.

CIM-12067 Summary: With Rulebase, an exception is thrown when using a variable within a concat clause that is used within a like expression.

Workaround: None.

CIM-11529 Summary: When a large number of single record concurrent modification requests are sent, some records show as UNCONFIRMED on the UI. When the cache is restarted, the state of the record is correct.

Workaround: None.

CIM-11517 Summary: If a datasource contains many duplicate records and relationships, DBLoader can fail with a duplicate key error while processing the explicit relationships.

Workaround: Choose a slower update interval.

CIM-11143 Summary: When records are validated through 'ValidValues', the behavior is not consistent using the user interface and the web service. The UI reports an error but the web service does not.

Workaround: None.

CIM-10892 Summary: Even when a repository is deleted, the related index entities are still searchable.

Workaround: None.

CIM-10614 Summary: When manually editing the indexing configuration file (IndexerConfig.xml), you have to specify the attribute names in uppercase.

Workaround: None.

CIM-9701 Summary: Documentation is required to describe a list of mandatory conditions to be imported while customizing or creating a new business rule domain.

Workaround: None.

CIM-8659 Summary: The SQL data source for the date type may have problems when it is imported.

Workaround: None.

CIM-7708 Summary: A repository cannot be created with a name similar to the previously deleted repository name.

Workaround: None.

CIM-5943 Summary: Import of data source with images (FILE attribute) can be problematic in certain situations, as the upload happens after the input mappings have already been created.

Workaround: Upload the data source file before creating the input mappings or before redeploying the input maps.

CIM-4220 Summary: Setting up permissions for modifying, viewing, and synchronizing a record in case a cross catalog relationship fails with an error message.

Workaround: None.

CIM-2085 Summary: The Rulebase execution can happen multiple times than needed for editing a record.

Workaround: None.