Code table transactions

InfoSphere® MDM facilitates specific client company needs by providing a number of code tables and the transactions to manage them.

Code tables are a mechanism used to:
  • define the allowable values for those elements supported by an existing code table without programming.
  • associate a business value to a database code.

Code tables can be accessed and maintained through a set of generic XML transactions. This section provides definitions of each of the code table entity objects passed by the transactions.

Attention: Beginning in InfoSphere MDM v8.0, a new framework was introduced for all new code types. While the new design enables you to service existing code tables through the new framework, the migration of existing code types to the new framework was completed in the InfoSphere MDM v9.0 release.
The new code table framework classifies code tables as either C1, C2, or C3.
  • C1 code tables contain restricted design-time code types that act as the basis for InfoSphere MDM design and runtime operations. C1 code tables have a pre-populated and fixed set of code type records.
  • C2 code tables contain general design-time code types that act as the basis for InfoSphere MDM default configuration. C2 code tables have a pre-populated set of code type records.
  • C3 code tables contain domain operational code types that you can modify according to your requirements, at your discretion.

The Special Note section of the documentation for each code table transaction contains information about which code type category is valid for that transaction.