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Release summary for IBM® Product Master Version 14.0.

Description

Product Master provides a highly scalable, enterprise Product Information Management (PIM) solution. Product Master is the middleware that establishes a single, integrated, consistent view of products and services information of an enterprise. With the IBM Product Master Version 14.0 release, the product introduces more capabilities that enable the user persona to perform various tasks more efficiently.

Note: IBM Product Master continues to be part of IBM InfoSphere® Master Data Management family with same operational support.

See Release highlights for more information about new features and enhancements in this release.

Type of Release Availability
General Availability of IBM Product Master Version 14.0 14th April 2025

Announcement

The IBM Product Master release announcement is available from the IBM Offering Information website.

See the announcement for the following information:

  • Product updates
  • Support announcements and reminders
  • Packaging and ordering details

Release highlights

New enhancements
  • Data completeness view by Attributes

    View the product completeness reports on the data attributes to improve the data quality and operational efficiency.

  • Video streaming capability

    Experience enhanced user engagement and improved marketing through the application's built-in video streaming capability.

  • View Adobe™ PDF files

    Experience enhanced user engagement and collaboration with the ability to view Adobe PDF files through the application.

  • View the historical flow of an item across collaboration areas and workflows

    Enhanced product traceability by the ability to track the historical progression of items across collaboration areas and workflows.

  • Comment history for an entry

    Improve decision-making at the workflow steps by using the role-based conversational history of comments for an entry in a collaboration area.

Other enhancements
  • Suspect Duplicate Processing (SDP) enhancement

    Ability to embed the SDP feature into any customer workflow and provide the master and duplicate products linking.

  • Data survivorship enhancement

    Ability to enable the Data survivorship feature on multiple attributes simultaneously from the spec detail page.

  • Multi-instance support in Containerized deployment

    Allows the deployment of multiple instances by using a single operator within the same or different namespaces by using a unique instance name.

  • Integration with IBM watsonx™

    Leverage integrated watsonx capabilities in Product Master to quickly create content with reasonable quality and consistency and keep your MDM system up to date.

Request For Enhancement (RFE)

  • MDMCE-I-371, MDMCE-I-393: Multi-valued filter in the Collaboration area, Data explorer, and Search pages

    The grids in the Collaboration area, Data explorer, and Search pages now support multiple pipe [|]-separated values. A filter can be applied on a single column with OR logic, or multiple columns by using AND logic. This enables you to have access to clear and concise data as per your requirement.

  • MDMCE-I-399: Customize the 'Entries per page' in the grid view

    You can now customize the number of entries you can view on any application page. Through Settings → Personal settings→ Entries per page, you can specify 4 custom values that will be displayed across all grids in the application. This enables you to customize the application grids to display data as per your requirement.

  • MDMCE-I-425: Data completeness view by Attributes

    Using the Completeness tab in the Single-edit page, you can now view Data completeness status across all channels at a glance. You can only see a localized graph for a channel. In the header of the page, you can see the Core data completion section, which has the total data completeness value in percentage (%), and lists the number of missing attributes. The Missing Attributes link opens a panel at the bottom part of the page that has a list of all the missing attributes. Click an attribute to directly open it in the single-edit page for easy editing. You can also export a list of all the missing attributes for an item across all channels as a Microsoft Excel workbook. You can export a completeness report (Microsoft Excel workbook) at the catalog level by using the IBM MDMPIM Completeness Report.

  • MDMCE-I-432: Audit History dashboard drill-down to History details

    The Audit History dashboard now has a similar flow to the Audit History tab of the single-edit page. You can export Audit history details for a selected entry to a Microsoft™ Excel workbook. You can see the new value and old value items-wise for all items of the grid. You can filter data displayed in the grid, as well as drag column headers to create and organize the data through groups.

  • MDMCE-I-434: Preview for the WebP type of images

    Now IBM Product Master application supports the preview of the WebP image format. You can now see the WebP image format whether as an image type attribute, a thumbnail image type attribute, or as a digital asset.

  • MDMCE-I-442: Provision to hide the display image and display image description on the single-edit page

    On the single-edit page, you can now have an option to hide the display image and display the image description. Similarly, you can also now set the display image and display description by using image attributes. You have to enable this feature through Settings → Application settings→ Display image attributes.

  • MDMCE-I-451: Settings→ Application settings page enhancement

    A new pop-up confirmation message is now displayed to confirm the application-level impact of any change you have made on the Application settings page.

  • MDMCE-I-452: Change the icon for the Lookup table attribute

    More user-friendly icons have been introduced for the Lookup attribute, Relationship attribute, and Linked attributes.

Stack upgrade
Software Version
Angular 17
IBM Db2® 12.1
IBM Installation Manager 1.10.1
IBM Java™ SDK 8.0.8.35
IBM MQ 9.4.1.0-r2
IBM Semeru Runtime® Certified Edition for PIM/Indexer 17.0.12.1
IBM WebSphere® Application Server 9.0.5.22
IBM WebSphere Liberty 24.0.0.12
Kubernetes platform 1.31
MongoDB 7.0.14
OpenSearch 2.18.0
Oracle Database 19c
Python 3.11.10
Red Hat® OpenShift® platform 4.16

Removed components

The following Product Master components have been removed in this release.

Component name Removed in version
IBM InfoSphere Physical Master Data Management (Banking solution) 14.0
Advanced Catalog Management (ACM) for HCL Commerce (formerly known as IBM WebSphere Commerce) 12.0

System requirements

Media

IBM Product Master consists of the following general media packages.

Summary for complex table
E-assembly Description Part number​ File name
G0F5JML IBM Product Master v14.0 Multiplatform Multilingual eAssembly
IBM Product Master v14.0 Multiplatform Multilingual M0R6ZML ProductMaster_14_tar.gz
License Information - IBM Product Master v14.0 M0R70ML ProductMaster_14_License.zip
IBM Product Master v14.0 Container M0R71ML ProductMaster_14_Docker_Key.zip

Installing

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  • For product installation information and procedures, see Installing.
  • Ensure you use the fromversion parameter when migrating from the IBM Product Master Version 12.0 (Base or any fix packs) as described below. 
    $TOP/bin/migration/migrateFrom1200FP.sh --fromversion=
<Specify your current IBM Product Master 12.0 version>
    Example
    $TOP/bin/migration/migrateFrom1200FP.sh --fromversion=Base
    $TOP/bin/migration/migrateFrom1200FP.sh --fromversion=FP1

    For more information, see Migrating to IBM Product Master Version 14.0.

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Known issues

The following is the list of known issues addressed with the release of IBM Product Master Version 14.0.

Known issue ID Description
DT378299 Persona-based UI - Collaboration Area: On Required step, for the Grouping Multioccuring attribute, after adding a new occurrence without data and saving the item, an additional occurrence is added automatically.
DT395581 Enhance the password-checking capability in the Product Master application.
DT395824 The Interim check-in and the parallel step in the workflow.
DT395999 The color selection icons for the font color and font background color options are too small for the Rich text attribute type.
DT397598 Documentation: The savedSearches() REST API details in the swagger file.
DT397599 Persona-based UI: The Admin user cannot delete a template created by another user.
DT398872 Searching by using the "In" operator takes a very long time.
DT416700 Persona-based UI: Manage attribute pop-up window is not displaying the Display Name.
DT416701 Persona-based UI: Manage attribute pop-up window issue in the deselect attribute that is a part of more than one group.
DT416702 Persona-based UI: Manage attribute pop-up window shows attributes that are not in the Tab view.
DT418060 A few items are not being checked in the catalog.
DT418408 Persona-based U - Data Completeness: Required tab is not available in view getting displayed.
DT418409 Persona-based U - Data Completeness: The Missing attribute panel is not getting refreshed.
DT418410 The Reset option on the Search result page is not working properly.
DT419467 Persona-based UI: Automated steps are not visible.
DT420178 Not all attributes are shown in the Free Text Search(FTS) attributes list.
DT422106 Show a warning before saving the Application Setting page.
DT423783 Persona-based UI: Not able to search by Primary Supplier attribute using FTS search.
DT424807 When performing a free text search for a specific item, sometimes "1 result found" is displayed, but two rows are seen due to item duplication.
DT425432 The Add Run button in the Job Manager → Jobs → Import Jobs page is disabled.

Known limitations

The following limitation is only applicable to the Persona-based UI.

  • Vendor user

    This is not supported in the current OpenID Connect (OIDC) single sign-on (SSO) implementation but will be available with the next release.

Inclusive terminology

IBM has launched an initiative to identify and replace terminology that promotes racial and cultural bias. IBM Product Master aligns with IBM values in embracing the use of inclusive language by identifying and replacing racially and culturally biased terms in our product and documentation.

Also, while IBM values the use of inclusive language, terms that are outside of IBM's direct influence, for the sake of maintaining user understanding, are sometimes required. As other industry leaders join IBM in embracing the use of inclusive language, IBM will continue to update the documentation to reflect those changes.

To learn more about this initiative, read the Words Matter – Language in IT blog on ibm.com®®.