Data engineers can use the IBM Match 360 with Watson service's configuration capabilities to load and publish data, customize the data model, configure the matching capabilities of the system, and run matching to create master data entities.

Required permissions

To configure a master data instance, you must be a member of the DataEngineer user group for the IBM Match 360 service.

To access the configuration tools, click Go to configuration from the master data home page or choose Configuration overview from the navigation menu.

The configuration and data setup experience includes:

• Customizing your data model
• Adding data and mapping it to your data model
• Connecting data to IBM Match 360
• Adding master data from InfoSphere MDM
• Defining attribute composition rules
• Matching your data to create master data entities
• Customizing and strengthening your matching algorithm
• Configuring IBM Match 360 workflows
• Saving and loading master data configuration snapshots
• Managing IBM Match 360 jobs