Problem
When loading data into the hub, a given publisher seems to be ignored in record-level or field-level consolidation in Convergence for MDM.
This publisher is used either in a Preferred Publisher or in Custom Ranking consolidation strategy.
Solution
The value stored and expected by Convergence for MDM to identify the publisher of a record is the Publisher Code, and not its Name. The code, unlike then name is always in UPPERCASE.
There are several reasons for a preferred publisher to be ignored in a consolidation:
- The Data loaded in the
SD_
table do not use the Publisher Code in theB_PUBID
column. This publisher code must be loaded in UPPERCASE.
If the value inB_PUBID
does not match an existing publisher code, then this publisher is considered at the last position in the preferred publisher consolidation. Other publishers' values will always be taken into account for consolidation. - When the PublisherID built-in attribute is used in a Custom Ranking consolidation, the literal values specified in the SemQL expression should be equal to the Publisher Code. These values are also in UPPERCASE.
If the SemQL clause does not contain a literal that exactly matches the publisher codes, the clause will never work as expected.
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