IM Relationship Resolution Information Center, Version 4.2

Loading data from a file

You can use the File Load feature in the Visualizer to load data for multiple identities that are defined in a UMF file. When you select a UMF file, the system opens the file, loads the data into the pipeline, and then the pipeline processes the identities in the file, which adds them to the entity database and resolves any entities and identified relationships. Alerts are generated based on the rules that were configured.

About this task:

To load and process UMF files through the Visualizer, there must be a running IBM Relationship Resolution pipeline available for the Visualizer server to communicate with.

Before loading a file, you may want to validate the UMF in the file, to be certain that there are no errors in the file.

Procedure:
  1. In the Visualizer, do one of the following actions:
    1. From the View menu, select UMF, and then select File Load.
    2. From the toolbar, click the (UMF) icon.
    3. From the UMF window, in the UMF drop-down field, select File Load.
  2. Click the Load File... button to browse to and select the UMF file you want to load, and then click the Open button. The system loads the selected file into the pipeline, and the pipeline begins processing the data in the file. The File progress bar shows you the time elapsed during processing, the number of records processed, and the status of the file load.
    1. To stop the file load and processing, click the (Stop) icon button.
    2. To pause the file load and processing, click the (Pause) icon button.
    3. To resume loading and processing the file after pausing, click the (Continue) icon button.

    As the data in the file is loaded, an IBM Relationship Resolution pipeline processes the data through entity and relationship resolution. If you see an error, contact your system administrator. The error is most likely a pipeline problem.

    New identities are added to the database, along with resolved entities and relationships. The system generates any alerts related to the data, based on the configured system rules.

  3. Optional: After the file is loaded and processed, click the View Results button to see a summary of the results, which includes the following information:
    • The number of records sent to the pipeline.
    • The number of new entities created in the entity database, based on the data from the file that you loaded.
    • The number of UMF exceptions that the pipeline encountered while processing the data in this file. (This number may indicate errors in the UMF file or problems in the syntax that prevent the pipeline from fully processing the data.)
    • The number of role alerts created, based on the data in the file that you loaded.
What to do next:
If the File Load Results window indicated that there were any UMF exceptions in the file that you loaded, validate the file, using the UMF File Validation feature to help you find the errors in the file, so that you can correct them. Once you correct the errors, you may want to reload the data that contained the errors, so that the pipeline can fully process that data.


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Last updated: 2009