MDM SP06 changes related to wrkflw, assignmnt,valdtn etc

Hello All.
Please tell me about if there is anything related to performance of import server / syndication server / workflows
and the changes related to workflows / validations / assignments /matching strategies in the MDM 5.5 SP06 upgrade version of SP05.
Its urgent,thanks in advance
Regards
Ankit

Hi Ankit,
There are certain changes in SP06 related to assignments and workflows.
These are the improvements made in SP06 version...
Content-based permissions
1) Use named searches like masks in role constraints
Enhanced repository schema migration
2) Transfer of validations, assignments and ports
Improved editing for qualified lookups
1) Enhanced usability for mass changes
Extended UWL integration
1) Create and launch workflow jobs, support for validation step
GUI based installation on UNIX platforms
2) Graphical setup of MDM Server and runtime environment
Extended API coverage
1) Locking/Unlocking and protection of records etc.
Improved System Monitoring and Analysis
2) Integration into Solution Manager Diagnostics 4.0
3) Integration into Wily Introscope for deep-dive analysis
4) Extended information and improved handling
of MDM log and trace files
Hope this is helpful.
Reward with points if found useful.
Regards,
Sravan Velamury

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I'm updating, editing, and appending an existing site that was previously created with Dreamweaver.
I'm new to Dreamweaver but have a pretty good understanding of things
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<tr>
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I assume I could simply do this by changing the ftp info and given the site structure and all files are same and ideally all links are relative this should be accomplished easily.
Though perhaps my problem stems from the fact my local site is buried several layers deep on my local drive Local Drive/Users/Me/Clients/Client.... etc... but I haven't checked this yet.

Great... Thanks for your patience....
Here are links to all questioned files on the staging server:
This is the .dwt file itself
This is a random page created from the above template that shows the image/navigation incorrect.
And this page was created by simply altering the .dwt template file linked above and then SAVING AS. You can see the relative links remained and the navigation bar looks and operates as normal. (obviously the wrong thing to do.
And this page is one that was created prior to my working on the site and was based on the subpage template and displays correctly.
Now bear with me here as I notice this behavour too.
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MDM 5.5 related questions

Dear Roman,
We have been reading all of your blogs and articles on SDN.
We have many questions related to SAP MDM 5.5, few of which are listed below:
Q1. Whether cross compatibility for different ERPs will be provided or not? (for Siebel, PeopleSoft etc)
In case of MDM 3.0, it was supposed to be developed on Project Basis.
[Rytov, Roman] Since MDM is an SAP's product I don't know (and don't think) any transformation vehicle will be provided for 3-d party products out of the box. On the other hand, anyone can get all necessary knowledge to bring external data into MDM and back. I've been working with several customers placing MDM as a data hub (a scenario that for some reason hasn't gotten a separate bullet in the MDM scenarios diagram but widely adopted by customers). So you can bring data from external systems to MDM (by either the APIs or with help of the ImportManager) and distribute it back to the same (or other) systems leveraging the Syndicator or the APIs again.
     [Satyen] With the help of APIs/ Import manager, we can get the data from external systems into the SAP MDM but then <b>we need to have functional knowledge</b> to do mapping manually between MDM business objects and different business objects as Material from CRM, Business Partner from CRM, Business partner Relationships from CRM. In one of the blogs by Kevin Isaacson , its mentioned that SAP MDM is packaged with predefined repository and import maps for the supported objects like material, vendor, customer.
     1. So whats the exact scenario for cross-client support? Do these import maps provided by SAP support external systems like PeopleSoft, Siebel?
     2. In the SAP MDM 5.5 Import Manager document provided by SAP, its not talking about client connectivity but only about how import can be done? Where can we find this information?
     3. Is XI completely removed from IT scenarios? If yes, then how is it going to take care of data transfer with different data sources?
     4. Can you please elaborate more about DATA HUB scenario? I believe, Oracle is also coming with similar technology to SAP MDM which supports only Central Master Data Management scenario. In Oracle terminology, they call it Central Data Hub (CDH).
Q2. Can we build a legacy system on top of Central Repository? If yes, how? Is Reverse Engineering possible?
[Rytov, Roman] I'm not sure I understood the question but you may probably treat your MDM system similar to a RDBMS with an additional intelligent layer. In this light you can build on top of MDM whatever you want by using either the APIs only or by leveraging the ImportManager and the Syndicator. I tell you that one of the customers that uses MDM as a data hub at the same time in another MDM repository stores exceptions and other technical messages occurring during integration workflow with external systems. So they have a workflow module which uses MDM as a persistence (MDM itself) and a presentation layer (the client) for managing exception handling. Only your fantasy and the common sense limit applicability of MDM.
     [Satyen] I understand that by using APIs, we can access the underlying RDBMS tables of MDM repository but then
       1. how can we link the complex relationships maintained between Main Table & various Lookup tables, main table & special tables?
       2. I believe the data in the MDM repository is maintained in a very complex way (Delimiter separated) and is manipulated on the fly by the C++ code using pointers & rich/efficient string operations. So how can we access it directly and make use of data from the repository?
       3. In case of WorkFlow module, since it is quite independent of Main table and lookup table linkages, we can make use of it for persistence but then for other modules, it must be quite complex thing to do so.
Q3. Will there be separate repositories for IT scenarios, GDS & Catalog publishing?
[Rytov, Roman] GDS is a separate application although built upon MDM. It has its own repository which can be accessed from the client. I don't know if there are any limitation on such concurrent usage. I have to check it and will come back to you.
     [Satyen] We attended the Webinar hosted by Klaus David on GDS 1.0, as per that GDS maintains its own repository which can co-exist along with MDM repository on the same DBMS server but then in MDME, which mainly covers business scenarios only, does not really talk about Master Data harmonization, central master data management.
     1. If it is the case, then dont you think itll be duplication of efforts for maintaining various repositories for GDS, MDME & IT scenarios?
Can we have an illustrated difference between Qualified field, Qualifiers, Product families & Data Groups?
[Rytov, Roman] It's a big topic but in a few words the answer is: Qualified fields and qualifiers are means and tools of qualifier lookup tables. I'm writing now a set of articles talking about it and update you when it's ready. Product families are similar to virtual taxonomy. So you create an additional level of your taxonomy but virtually, choosing attributes to classify it. No additional branches are created. Data group is just an hierarchical structure for storing binary objects (PDF, TextBlocs, Images and others). It helps organize not structured binary data and link it later to your catalog's objects.
     [Satyen] We understood about the product group.
     1. Can you provide the exact definition of Qualifier? Whether is it a part of Main table or Qualified Lookup table?
     2. Whats the exact difference between Sub-category and Product family? As per SAP document, the product family is a kind of taxonomy with some common Fields AND/OR Attributes. Can you provide some example about it?
How data is harmonized in SAP MDM 5.5? What is the difference between Syndicator, GDS & SCM?
(Don't they have overlapping functionality?)
[Rytov, Roman] Let's see. The Syndicator is a tool opposite to the ImportManger - to export data from MDM to flat or XML file (currently implemented formats). GDS is an application for retail market built upon MDM. SCM - isn't it a SAP-based (ABAP) application? I'm not from the ABAP world so I don't know it. But there are few SAPBased applications having master-data module built in. Depending on business needs and technical requirements such modules can keep on serving their roles with or without integration with an external MDM. I'm trying to say again that there are no predefined MDM scenarios and some customer may wish use it as a central point of truth but others as a cleansing gate or a translator hub. An architect team should understand capability and cost of every module and in every concrete case make appropriate decisions.
     [Satyen] According to the SAP documents, we can use Syndicator to syndicate data with UCCNet, Transora (both of which are now going to merge).
     1. If its the case then why GDS is separately required in whole MDM scenario? Is it not overlapping the functionality of each other? Then how GDS can become a separate Business Scenario for SAP MDM 5.5?
Let me ask you a few questions. Did you take the basic standard 4-day course about MDM5.5? It's mandatory to kick off MDM learning and understanding.
[Satyen] Now in second week of August, we are going to attend the 5 days workshop conducted by SAP at Bangalore, India which can help us in understanding SAP MDM 5.5 in a much better way!
To understand how MDM fits to a system landscape I advise you to listen to my e-Book if you haven't yet found it:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/sdn/url.sdn?res=/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.sdn.wcm.compound.docs/library/events/webinars/mdme in your it landscape/mdme 5.5 in your it landscape
[Satyen] Thanks for providing the URL. Its really useful! Is there any way by which we can download this presentation with audio?
We're developing a 2-day workshop for advancing MDM data modeling which will mostly be comprised of hands-on experience and brainstorming discussions. It's planned somewhere in October but for now it's not clear when and where it will be given.
[Satyen] Its definitely going to be very helpful to everyone as in SAP MDM 5.5, you can design the repository in various ways. So these discussions/brain storming sessions will be really useful to everyone. Please let us also know about it.
Good luck with MDM!
[Satyen] Once again thanks for everything!!
Roman
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Satyen
Satyam Computer Services Ltd.
Pune, India.

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In the Logical model in Data Modeler, how do I change an attribute name which is used as a "Relation UID"?
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I have a problem with my OM system,
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(a)
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After the moving in HRP1001, relationship between org unit has changed B 002 C (is delimited) D 002 C (is new).
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A 002 B     a 002 b
A 002 D     a 002 d
D 002 C     b 002 c d 002 c
D 002 E     d 002 e
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Fede

Hi Frederica,
if I understand your problem correctly, I'm afraid there is a major design flaw in your OM.
You have an Org-hierrchy with leader positions assigned to each orgunit and the "normal"positions also assigned to those orgunits. This is absolutely sufficient for the system to know, who is reporting to whom and standard reports, evaluation paths, structural auth., workflows all can be set up to work with this correctly. And this is best practise.
BUT you also seem to be using a position hierarchy in parallel. A position hierarchy is really only meant to be a quick and chaep alternative for an Org hierarchy, if you don't want to create orgunits. There is no new information in there. It's completely redundant. And your problem is proof for why this redundancy is damaging: you get inconsitencies.
I"ve seen this before. Whilst their might be good resons for it (I"ve never seen one), thsi is usually done by consultants, who don't understand orgmanegement or do understand that what they are doing is wrong, but rather have teh customer do double manual work with almost guaranteed inconsistencies than make an effort to properly understand struc. authorisations, reports or workflows. If you have no clue about OM, the extra position hierarchy can make some things easier.
So, my recommendation is:
1) check our, where the position hierarchy is used for reporting, workflow, authorisations or other things in your system
2) replace this by the org hierarchy
3) delete the position hierrchy (i.e. the 002 relationships between positions)

Changes related to bug 6865629

Can anyone tell me what were the changes made related to Bug 6865629 http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6865629?

Hi,
There is only one limitation with the trial version and that limitation is you cannot print.
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Changing relative folder structure with text insets

(FM11 on Win7)
What will make the end result maintainable and the make the transition easy?
A set of project files has the following structure:
*.book // some for deliverables; some are "workbench" books for managing content
*.book-generated files, such as *TOC.fm and *IX.fm
ch_*.fm // These are chapter files that are part of the book. They include ch_*TOC.fm files as insets.
ch_*TOC.fm // these are the chapter TOC files
_Graphics // a folder that contains graphics files
_Insets; a folder of text insets. Some point to files in the _Graphics folder
To "clean" the top level of the master folder so that it is easier for multiple authors to share, we are considering repositioning:
The book files and their generated files to a _Books folder, or maybe a different _Book folder for each type of deliverable. We will create more books in the future.
Chapter and chapterTOC files to a new folder. We will create more chapters in the future.
The proposed structure is:
_Books // contains that .book file from above, plus its generated files
_Chapters // contains the following from above
ch_*.fm // These are chapter files that are part of the book. They include ch_*TOC.fm files as insets.
ch_*TOC.fm // these are the chapter TOC files
_Graphics // unchanged from above
_Insets // unchanged from above
Apparently FM11 does not enable a change of relative references to text insets the way it does graphics. If it does, I don't see that feature in the GUI. What am I missing?
To enable the _Chapters change concept, do I need to MIF each chapter file with a text editor, such as Notepad++, and replace the old relative references with the new one? Something like this?
WAS <TiSrcFile `<c\>_Insets<c\>filename.fm
BECOMES <TiSrcFile `<c\>..\_Insets<c\>filename.fm
Moving the book files does not look as complex. Is this the simplest way?
Move the chapter files.
Move the book file.
Open the book file. Its chapter references fail.
Add the chapter files from their new _Chapters folder and delete the old broken references.
Update the book.

Just be certain to not start the folders at the root of the drive, i.e. C:\Books. This is the "root" level of the drive. Start your entire structure one-level down, e.g. C:\Projects\Books. FM has a nasty habit of converting all relative file references to absolute ones if any of the path to a file traverses the root of the drive. This will will really bite you if you ever have to move your collection to another location.
Text insts behave differently, in that FM actually stores the entire content of the inset internally as well as maintaining a pointer to the file. Unfortunately, you're going to have to either re-import the inset or tweak the path in the MIF <TiSrcFile....> entry.
In your current structure, you have the graphics and insets one-level down from the FM files and books (child relationship). In the new structure, you're proposing to move them to a folder at the same level (sibling relationship).
It probably would be simpler and less error-prone to create new book files after you re-organize your files and ensure that there are no broken file references.

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Long Version:
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#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-STREAM-INF:PROGRAM-ID=1,BANDWIDTH=10240000,CODECS="mp4a.40.2, avc1.42001f"
https://myserver/hls-vod/dc226454b9e39b9ffc44f9496505c70e/4ea6963f/path/to/folder/filename _1024k.mp4.m3u8
I have installed mod-auth-token, and configured it on a LocationMatch for "^/hld-vod/(.*)\.m3u8$". Everything up to this works perfectly, and I can request both m3u8 playlists successfully. The problem is that the content of the m3u8 (the ts fragment URLs) are relative to the URL of the m3u8.
#EXTM3U
#EXT-X-MEDIA-SEQUENCE:0
#EXT-X-ALLOW-CACHE:NO
#EXT-X-VERSION:2
#EXT-X-KEY:METHOD=AES-128,URI="https://myserver/hls-key/vodkey.bin",IV=0X560417e9155f2f2cb1fb9410397db72e
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXTINF:10,
filename_1024k.mp4Frag1Num0.ts
The player is attempting to request files from:
https://myserver/hls-vod/dc226454b9e39b9ffc44f9496505c70e/4ea6963f/path/to/folder/filename _1024k.mp4Frag1Num0.ts
I want this to look more like this:
https://myserver/hls-vod/path/to/folder/filename_1024k.mp4Frag1Num0.ts
or even this:
http://mycacheserver/hls-vod/path/to/folder/filename_1024k.mp4Frag1Num0.ts
So the m3u8 needs to look more like this:
#EXT-X-TARGETDURATION:10
#EXTINF:10,
http://mycacheserver/hls-vod/path/to/folder/filename_1024k.mp4Frag1Num0.ts
I can think of lost of placeswhere this would have useful applications. There does not appear to be anything in the Developer documents which would help here. Does anybody have a suggestion for something I can try?

Hi Michael,
Thanks for using FMS 4.5 and its new features.
However, there is no way to not to put relative urls for the ts files. However, you might like to do either Apache's "URL rewriting rules" or redirection . For rewriting rules, you might check http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html
Though, you may suffer in caching benefits. Here, if the id that you have inserted is on per client basis, you may not get the caching benefits on the caching server as it will always caching on basis of
https://myserver/hls-vod/dc226454b9e39b9ffc44f9496505c70e/4ea6963f/pat h/to/folder/filename_1024k.mp4Frag1Num0.ts
while, if you use client side redirect something like
redirect 301 url1 url2
it may help. You might consider other similar solutions for example, client redirect on proxy servers etc.. just be ware of caching in your case (if applicable)

MDM Password change

Hi Folks
As far as I know there is no provision to change the password for SAP MDM from the client(data manager/import manager/syndicator), Once it is set in console,
How if the user wants to change it, on his own with out informing the console Admin to change.
If somebody knows extra,pl share it
Thanks
AMOL

Hi Amole,
Password can only be changed in Console and Data Managerin present version of MDM 5.5 .You can also use APIs if you want to perform the same.
Refer Re: MDM Console Security Settings
Hope it helps.
Thanks,
Minaz
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