Properties

InfoSphere® MDM uses and manages properties in the OSGi framework.

Global Properties
With InfoSphere MDM, core properties are not meant to be updated by anyone other than IBM. This includes TCRM.properties and DWLCommon.properties. In addition, because those properties as well as the TCRM_Extension.properties and DWLCommon_Extension.properties are found inside the InfoSphere MDM EBA, those properties are not amenable to being updated.
Note: The TCRM.properties file is found inside the InfoSphere MDM EBA. For details on exporting this file for modification, see Enabling or disabling pluggable SQL at runtime.
Most properties that are meant to be updated are stored in the InfoSphere MDM Configuration and Management repository.

For example, the selection of the Party Matcher or the Party Searcher are specified in the Configuration and Management Repository. If there are global properties that you must change, then you can do so by exporting the asset named: com.ibm.mdm.server.resources.properties-E001.jar (the number E001 may vary on your system). To do this, you can log into the IBM® WebSphere® Application Server Admin Console and go to Application Types > Assets. Once you’ve exported the asset as a .jar, you can edit the properties files you wish to. You can then replace the asset in whole or you can replace only the properties files you changed.

Your Own Properties
If you generated your own properties that were meant to be read only by your own customizations, you must move those properties into the bundles that refer to them. You can use the normal JAVA API, such as http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html to refer to properties in those files. You can place your properties files in the BundleContent folder under a subfolder such as CustomResources.