IHS Markit EDM UK Support telephone number is changing

The IHS Markit EDM UK Support telephone number is changing from 13^th February 2017 to +44 161 240 4888.

Please update your records accordingly.

You can review the contact information for the Global Support team in EDM Confluence here

Contacting IHS Markit EDM Support

The IHS Markit EDM Support Team can be contacted via telephone, email or by logging an issue in Enterprise Software Jira, our online support call logging and tracking service 

Contact details, telephone numbers and regional availability are noted in EDM Confluence here.

Members of the support team are always on call to assist you with Severity 1 Production issues .

Should you encounter a Severity 1 Production issue please contact the teams noted below confirming that the issue is preventing you from operating your production system(s) and you are unable to continue until this has been resolved and a member of the team will be available to assist you. 

We request that clients make contact with Markit EDM via on call support for any severity 1 issues and only when contact has been established should email be used.

EMEA/APAC clients - Severity 1 Production on call : +44 7912 088 691 
NA clients - Severity 1 Production on call: +1 972 876 6792

Markit EDM v11.5 (Beta) Release Notification

December 22nd 2016

IHS Markit is pleased to announce the v11.5 (Beta) release of our Enterprise Data Management (EDM) software for clients participating in the beta program.

The highlights of this release are:

Markdown

• Text Label UI element and Email Data Porter now both support Markdown syntax for rich text rendering.
• Users can enter Markdown marked-up text which gets rendered into HTML.
• Placeholders can be used for text to be replaced during the conversion from Markdown to HTML.
• Custom HTML is disallowed to prevent the possibility of Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) attacks.

Heat Map

• New Heat Map Data Generator element displays colour-coded values in a grid.
• Colours represent value bands (such as red for hot or green for not).
• Similar to Microsoft Excel conditional formatting.

Charts

• Kendo UI Charts introduced for improved visualisation and customisation.
• New Chart UI elements include Line Chart, Bar Chart, Area Chart, Pie Chart, Scatter Chart, and Multi-Plot Chart.

Always-On

• Ability to mark a solution as Always-On so that components will execute with better performance.
• Always-On solutions are preloaded into memory on the application server through the Process Launcher Service.

Version Control

• New components no longer being checked in (and out again) on first save, until explicitly checked in.
• Change Sets now supported for Subversion, Team Foundation Server (TFS), and Database version control providers.

Navigation

• New standard navigation menu (site map) to navigate through to the available workflow screens in the Web UI.
• No need to "build your own" on every screen.

Other Changes

• Markit EDM now supports SQL Server 2016, with the minimum required version still being SQL Server 2008.

For additional information about this release, please see the Markit EDM v11.5 release note on our Confluence support site.

Please contact your client manager if you are interested in participating in this beta release.

Markit EDM Deprecation Notification

December 2016

IHS Markit would like to inform you that in line with the respective third parties' end-of-life policies we will be ending support for the following products, technologies and features in the forthcoming releases of Markit EDM.

Deprecated in EDM v11.5

EDM v11.5 will be the last supported version for the following products / technologies:

• Subversion 1.7
• Websphere MQ 7.0
• Internet Explorer 9
• Internet Explorer 10
• SourceSafe 2005

Deprecated in EDM v17.1*

EDM v17.1 will be the last supported version for the following products / technologies:

• SQL Server 2008
• SQL Server 2008 R2

Deprecated in EDM v17.2

EDM v17.2 will be the last supported version for the following products / technologies:

• Websphere MQ 7.1

EDM v17.2 will also be the last supported version for the following EDM features:

• The Data Porter 'XML File (deprecated)' data source and target.
• The Data Porter 'XML Message (deprecated)' data source and target
• 
  

* Note that after the EDM v11.5 release, the major version number will jump from 11 to 17 to reflect the release year, hence the subsequent release will be EDM v17.1.

see EDM Confluence here

Markit EDM Product Update

Version 11.0

We are pleased to announce the release of version 11.0 of Markit EDM.  The highlights in this version include.

Concurrent Processing

All processing components now have the ability to run concurrently thus removing the issue of job queue generation caused by component locking.  This builds upon the concurrent solutions and process keys functionality introduced in the 10.* series.

In-Memory Processing

The Data Inspector and Data Constructor both have the option to run in memory rather than as a stored procedure using similar functionality to the Data Flow Component.  This will enable the ability to move the processing workload to the application server and to load-balance across multiple application servers.

Core Matcher

The Core Matcher brings a new style of matching, to align with the other major themes of concurrency and in-memory processing.  The process will now match to a central Core Record rather than to the individual source pairs, thereby considerably reducing the number of rules, and running as an in-memory service providing the option to prioritise Id requests from different sources.

The Core Matcher is still in Beta test while we test further scenarios internally and with clients.  A further announcement will confirm when the Core Matcher will be generally available.

Web UI

With the removal of Silverlight support in v11.0, the Web UI has been given a new theme to freshen up the look at feel.  The theme will be configurable in the future to suit client styles.  

The Web UI will continue to evolve in future releases - with new grid and charting elements in version 11.5 and with new paging, responsive layouts, and end-user configuration in 2017.

For further details on the release please visit the following page in Confluence.

If you are interested in obtaining a copy of version 11.0, please contact your client manager.  If concurrent processing and the Core Matcher are of particular interest, please highlight this since you will require a new license.

Templates

The Index Master template has been added to our Template offering.  The template provides a model to house Index reference data, Index Levels and returns, and the underlying constituents' weights and returns.  The Index Master template can be connected into the other existing Templates:

          Security

          Party

          Price

Please contact your client manager or support to request a package containing the templates.  The package is supported from v10.5.3 onwards.

Future Developments

SQL 2008

We will look to remove support for SQL 2008 during the second release of 2017.  This is to allow us to focus on more recent functionality provided from SQL 2012 such as always-on services.

Component Definitions

In 2017 we will be changing the XML definition structure of each component type to provide more user friendly definitions.  This will help enable merging and branching as part of a version control strategy. 

For most clients this will not be an issue, because the definitions exist in the EDM system tables, but any solution that interrogates the component definitions will need to be changed.

The first beta candidate for IHS Markit EDM version 11 is now available

Release 10.9.0.6 is now available for clients participating in the beta program.

The highlights for this release are:

•             Concurrent Processing

•             In-memory Processing

•             Core Matcher

•             Web UI Theme

Full details can be found on confluence here.  

Clients that are interested in participating in the beta release should engage with their client manager.

Markit EDM Gap Training - v10 to v10.5

Markit EDM Training are pleased to announce the release of a new course that covers new features and changes established in the EDM platform in versions 10 through 10.5.

This is the first course in the Gap Training programme that exists to highlight the key features and changes in major releases of Markit EDM and help delegates to understands how these can be applied to a new or ongoing project.

We will be running this course for the first time in London on Friday 29th July.

For further information or to book a place onto the aforementioned course, please contact MEDM-Training@markit.com.