Data Monitoring and Maintenance

The Master Index Data Manager (MIDM) is a web-based interface that allows you to monitor and maintain the data in your master index database. The appearance and search capabilities of the MIDM are highly configurable to allow you to view and search for information in the way that best suits your business needs. The following figure shows a sample page on the MIDM.

Figure 6 Master Index Data Manager

The MIDM allows you to perform these primary functions to monitor and maintain the data in a master index database.

• Transaction History - You can view a complete history of each object for both the local system records and the single best record.

• Data Maintenance - You can add new records; view, update, deactivate, or reactivate existing records; and compare records for similarities and differences.

• Search - You can perform searches against the database for a specific object or a set of objects. For certain searches, the results are assigned a matching weight indicating the probability of a match.

• Potential Duplicate Detection and Handling - Using matching algorithm logic, the master index identifies potential duplicate records and provides the functionality to correct the duplication.

• Merge and Unmerge - You can merge records you find to be actual duplicates of one another at either the enterprise-wide unique identifier (EUID) level or the system record level. Merges made in error can easily be unmerged.