What's New

The What's New topic lists new and revised features of TIBCO MDM version 9.3.0 compared to the previous version with reference to documentation.

• Additional Cloud Platform Support
• Graphical Editor
• Automatic Hierarchy
• Query Builder Platform Tool
• Right to Be Forgotten
• Predicate Indexes
• Deduplication Tool
• New Options to the Purge Utility
• Enhancements to the Create Company Page
• Enhancements to Quick Export Window
• Apache Spark Upgrade
• Enhancements to Workflow Activities
• Enhancements to Precedence Management
• TIBCO MDM containerization section in Cloud Deployment Guide
• New REST Services
• Performance Improvements

Additional Cloud Platform Support

TIBCO MDM (Cluster) containers are now also supported on the following cloud platforms:

• Microsoft Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Amazon EKS
• Google Cloud Platform
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform

See: TIBCO MDM on the Cloud

Graphical Editor

The graphical editor has been introduced to display the visual tree representation of record hierarchy. The relationship management graphical editor is displayed for every repository and relationship that has record modify permissions. You can now perform various record operations on the graphical record editor.

See: Graphical Editor for Relationship Management

Automatic Hierarchy

You can now automatically create hierarchies for large volumes of data, where manually creating hierarchy and linking records is an unmanageable task. You can create hierarchies based on the selected attribute values in the records.

See: Creating Automatic Hierarchies

Query Builder Platform Tool

You can use the query builder platform tool of TIBCO Patterns - Search for the custom matching process to search for records. After detecting duplicate records, use the auto-merge selection process to merge source records with the existing matching records and automate the selection of a target or surviving matching record.

See:

• Custom Matching Using Query Builder Platform of TIBCO Patterns - Search
• SurvivingRecordSelection Activity

Right to Be Forgotten

Adhering to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance, TIBCO MDM has introduced the right to be forgotten feature to permanently delete records. You can now mark records for permanent deletion from one or more repositories based on the attribute name and its value.

See:

• Right to Be Forgotten
• Scheduling Jobs from the Configurator
• Job Type Input Parameters

Predicate Indexes

The predicate indexes feature of TIBCO Patterns - Search has been added to TIBCO MDM to improve the performance when huge data is uploaded in TIBCO MDM.

See:

• Predicate Indexes - An Overview
• Creating Predicate Indexes

Deduplication Tool

TIBCO MDM provides an external tool named Deduplication to locate duplicate records before coming to TIBCO MDM. This tool is provided as a sample for the Customer data model. However, you can customize the tool for other data models.

See: Deduplication Tool

New Options to the Purge Utility

The following new inputs have been added to the purge command line utility:

• -dh (Delete record hierarchy)
• -rcbp (Record count bounded purge)
• -tbp (Time bounded purge)

See:

• Input to Utility
• Command Line Purge Examples
• Bounded Purge
• Scheduling Jobs Using the Configurator

Enhancements to the Create Company Page

From the Create Company page, you can now select Customer, Party, or Insurance data model and add sample data for the selected data model. If you select the data model, you must create administrator credentials.

See: Creating a Company Profile

Enhancements to Quick Export Window

In the Quick Export window, the following new options are added:

• Workflow
• Export Relationship Data

By using these options, you can now export relationships with their related records.

See:

• Export Delivery Options
• Exporting Records Using Quick Export

Apache Spark Upgrade

Version 2.4.5 of Apache Spark is now supported.

See: Setting up Apache Spark

Enhancements to Workflow Activities

• UnZipFile: Now, FileName parameter can take the document as input.
• EvaluateSubset: The new CutoffDate parameter has been added. You can now filter records after a certain date.
• ExtractDataToDelimitedFile: The new ExportAttributes parameter has been added, using which you can specify whether to export all attributes or displayable attributes.

See:

• UnZipFile Parameters and Valid Execution Modes
• EvaluateSubset Parameters and Valid Execution Modes
• ExtractDataToDelimitedFile Parameters

Enhancements to Precedence Management

A new Log Attribute History configuration property has been added to log attribute history entries for an attribute even if the value of the attribute does not change.

See: Configuration Properties for Attribute History

TIBCO MDM containerization section in Cloud Deployment Guide

The TIBCO MDM Containerization section has been moved from the Installation and Configuration guide to the new Cloud Deployment guide. You can now find containerization and cloud platform support information in one place.

See: TIBCO® MDM Cloud Deployment

New REST Services

From the Swagger UI, the following new REST services can be accessed:

• Get Data Source List
• Upload Data Source
• Import Records
• Data Source Upload and Import Records

See: Using the Swagger UI to Browse REST APIs

Performance Improvements

The following features have been improved for better performance:

• Apache Ignite with raw mode: Reduces memory size requirements
• Search query: Retrieves confirmed records from the GOLDENCOPY table
• Use of multithreaded indexing when indexing records in TIBCO Patterns - Search: Processes index entities asynchronously, and then each thread processes records in batches
• Mass update using REST services: Supports a large number of record updates
• Import records by using the Direct Load option: Updates index definition for better direct load performance