Defining groups in IBM Match 360

Create and maintain groups to organize your master data records into logical categories based on shared characteristics or business needs.

For example, you can organize families into household groups or group customers based on demographics or marketing categories.

You can define group types from the data types screen. From the Master data navigation menu, click Data types to open the data types page, then select Group types.

You can also define groups by importing them from your pre-existing IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Advanced Edition deployment. If you do not have an InfoSphere MDM instance with groups defined, then you cannot work with IBM Match 360 groups at this time.

To import groups and their member records from InfoSphere MDM, use the MDM Publisher tool. You must have InfoSphere MDM 14.0 or later with the MDM Publisher Refresh 1 feature pack installed. For information about using MDM Publisher, see the MDM Publisher documentation

For information about configuring IBM Match 360 to import data from InfoSphere MDM, see Loading and working with master data from InfoSphere MDM.