Smart Mapping

IBM® uses the collective intelligence of the IBM webMethods Integration community to suggest which fields should be mapped in a data map by learning from the mappings you create.

Smart mapping provides you with recommendations while mapping the pipeline data and uses a series of algorithms to determine the likely accuracy of a given suggestion, enabling you to toggle between high, medium, and low levels of mapping confidence. A machine learning (ML) algorithm is applied to provide the suggestions. The ML algorithm learns from the mappings that you create and provides suggestions automatically to map similar fields. The algorithm benefits from having more data from number of users.

Smart mapping is anonymous and does not store any customer-specific information or actual data of any kind and is available to only those tenants who provide their consent to share their mapping information. Individual fields that are contained within the records are indexed. Specifically, the field names and their hierarchy are indexed, as well as the mapping relationships between them. After providing consent, if you have the relevant role permissions, you can choose to opt-out of smart mapping. Your maps will not be indexed, that is, if you opt out of smart mapping, you will not be able to see or use any mapping suggestions and your maps will no longer be indexed. However, as the index is anonymous, any maps and profiles that are indexed during the opt-in period remain in the database. Further, the data that is collected is confined to that particular data center where the tenant resides.

Mapping recommendations are not tenant-specific, so mapping inputs from one tenant that is maybe used to make recommendations for another tenant. When you do the mapping, the data that is collected does not reflect immediately as a recommendation for another user as the information is recorded and processed in our database only at specified intervals.

Note: For trial tenants, the mapping data is collected by default. Further, for trial tenants and for the Free Forever Edition, smart mapping is always enabled and cannot be changed. For paid tenants, only an Administrator has the permission to enable or disable smart mapping.

The following information is not indexed:

  • Business Data log
  • Static values that you set in the pipeline map
  • Accounts
  • Reference Data
  • Pipeline Data
  • Certificates
  • User Details
  • Static values in any application operations

How it works

  1. To provide your consent to share the mapping information, from the IBM webMethods Integration navigation bar, click the profile icon that is located at the upper-right corner of the home page, and select Settings > Preferences.
  2. On the Configure Tenant Preferences page, select the Publish integration mappings to recommendations engine option and click Save to enable smart mapping. This provides you with mapping recommendations whenever you do mapping. By enabling this option, you are also providing us with your consent to collect your mapping information. For trial tenants and for the Free Forever Edition, this option is always enabled by default and cannot be changed.
  3. Select a project and then the flow service for which you want to do smart mapping.
  4. On the pipeline-mapping screen, select Recommend Mappings to see the recommended mappings. If you select the Show only mapped option, the Recommend mappings option is automatically cleared.When the screen is initially loaded, only high recommendations appear by default.
  5. Drag the recommendation accuracy slider to view the mapping recommendations and filter the recommendations based on their recommendation accuracy. The recommendation accuracy or confidence number appears when you hover the pointer over a mapping and is the level of mapping confidence of that specific recommendation. Based on the level of mapping confidence, the recommendations are grouped into High, Medium, and Low categories:
    • Mappings have the highest probability
    • Mappings have medium probability
    • Mappings have the least probability

    You can select more than one category by moving the slider. In the following example, mappings that have medium and high probability are displayed.

  6. Select a mapping and click Accept to hard map it. You can select one or more recommendations and accept only those recommendations (Selected (x)), or you can accept all the recommendations that appear on the screen (All shown (x)). The accepted recommendation behaves like an actual mapping.
  7. To unmap a hard mapping, select the hard mapping and then click the delete icon available on the pipeline action bar. Once the hard mapping is deleted, the recommendations appear again. To hard map the recommendations again, click Accept and select the desired option.
Note: If you are an Administrator of a paid tenant, and have cleared the Publish Integration Mappings to Recommendations Engine option, IBM webMethods Integration displays a message to inform you whether you want to enable the smart mapping feature. If you select Yes, the Predict Mappings option appears in the pipeline-mapping screen.