Release notes: IBM® Product Master 14.0 release

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

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

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

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

Learn about the new and updated features and functions available with the Product Master 14.0 release.

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 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 customise 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 customise 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

Removed components

System requirements

• See System requirements for more details on the system requirements for the IBM Product Master installations.
• To see the detailed system requirements in the Software Product Compatibility Reports (SPCR), search IBM Product Master and press Enter.​

Media

IBM Product Master consists of the following general media packages.