IM InfoSphere Identity Insight, Version 8.0

Default UMF Specification

Universal Message Format (UMF) is a standard markup language, based on XML, for structuring data source files. Before data can be loaded or processed into the entity database, it must be formatted in UMF and follow the UMF specification.

UMF is an XML-based representation of the data that is processed and created by the pipeline. UMF is received over multiple protocols such as Web services, flat files, and other databases, but always follows the UMF specification. This UMF specification covers the default UMF shipped with the product; since UMF is highly configurable, there may be installation specific changes that override the defaults shown here.

UMF consists of these hierarchical components:
UMF documents
The collection of UMF segments that are used to load, modify, query, or request data from the entity database.
UMF segments
The parts of the UMF document that structure the data of a UMF document.
UMF tags
The parts of the UMF document that define the data values within UMF segments in a UMF document.
The UMF specification lists the specific types of UMF documents, the UMF segments within each UMF document type, and the valid UMF tags within each UMF segment.


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Last updated: 2011