Web Search
IBM® Marketing Platform features
About IBM® EMM security features
Configuration management
Localization in IBM® EMM
The common user interface
Logging in to IBM® EMM
IBM® EMM user account management
Types of user accounts: internal and external
Properties of user accounts
Adding a user account
Deleting a user account
Changing an internal user password expiration date
Resetting an internal user password
Changing user account properties
Changing user system status
Adding a user data source
Changing a user data source password or login name
Deleting a user data source
The user management pages
The per-user locale preference
Setting the user locale preference
Synchronization of external users
Forcing synchronization of external users
Security management
Where to find information on security administration in IBM® EMM
Permissions and tasks of the security administrator in Marketing Platform
Special characters in role and policy names
Roles and permissions in Marketing Platform and Campaign
Overview of managing user application access in Marketing Platform
Types of groups: internal and external
Partitions and security management
Pre-configured users and roles
Cross-partition administration privileges
Adding an internal group
Adding a subgroup
Deleting a group or subgroup
Changing a group or subgroup description
Assigning a group to a partition
Adding a user to a group or subgroup
Removing a user from a group or subgroup
The user group management pages
Creating a role
Modifying role permissions
Removing a role from the system
Assigning a role to or removing a role from a group
Assigning a role to or removing a role from a user
Definitions of permission states
Permissions for products that use only basic roles
Permissions for Marketing Platform
Permissions for Interaction History
Permissions for Attribution Modeler
Permissions for Opportunity Detection
Configuration management
Property categories
Category types
Templates for duplicating categories
Category naming restrictions
Property descriptions
The refresh function
The default user locale preference
Navigating to a category
Editing property values
Creating a category from a template
Deleting a category
Dashboard management
Dashboard planning
Dashboard audiences
User permissions required to view dashboards
Pre-defined portlets
Pre-defined portlet availability
Pre-assembled dashboards
Pre-assembled dashboard availability
List of pre-assembled dashboards
IBM® Cognos® report performance considerations
Scheduling a dashboard report
Pre-defined portlet descriptions
Marketing Operations IBM® Cognos® report portlets
Marketing Operations list portlets
IBM® Cognos® report portlets for Campaign
Campaign list portlets
eMessage IBM® Cognos® report portlets
Interact IBM® Cognos® report portlet
Configuring the Interaction Point Performance dashboard portlet
Distributed Marketing list portlets
Contact Optimization list portlets
Attribution Modeler IBM Cognos report portlet
Interaction History IBM® Cognos® report portlet
Dashboard setup
Permissions required to administer dashboards
Dashboard layout
Dashboards and partitions
Enabling or disabling pre-defined portlets
Creating a dashboard that is not pre-assembled
Creating a pre-assembled dashboard
Adding a pre-defined portlet to a dashboard
Assigning or changing a dashboard administrator
Removing a portlet from a dashboard
Changing the name or properties of a portlet
Changing the name or properties of a dashboard
Deleting a dashboard
Quick link portlets
Creating a quick link portlet
Custom portlets
Custom portlet types and availability
Authentication considerations for custom portlets
Overview of the portlet creation process
Preparing the URL from an on-premises Digital Analytics for On Premises report
Preparing the URL from an IBM® Cognos® dashboard report
Preparing the URL from an IBM® Digital Analytics report
Preparing the URL from an intranet or internet page
Adding a user-created portlet to a dashboard
The Manage Portlets page
The Create Custom Portlet page
Dashboard membership administration
The dashboard administrator
Granting or removing dashboard membership
The IBM® EMM Scheduler
Scheduler triggers that are sent on success or failure of runs
Schedules that depend on completion of multiple runs
Schedule triggers that are sent from an external script
Scheduler recurrence patterns
Time zone support
Scheduler throttling
Setting up throttling for the IBM® EMM Scheduler
Best practices for setting up schedules
The create or edit a schedule page
What to consider when you use the scheduler with Campaign
Difference between the IBM® Campaign Schedule process and IBM® EMM Scheduler
Permissions for scheduling flowcharts
Creating a flowchart schedule using default parameters
About overriding the default parameters for Campaign flowchart run schedules
Run parameters for scheduling Campaign flowcharts
Creating a flowchart schedule with overrides of the default parameters
The Override Flowchart Parameters page
Schedule notifications
Setting up notifications for schedules you create
Deleting or modifying notifications for schedules you create
Setting up schedule notifications for a group of users
The Edit Job Notification page
Schedule management
The Scheduler management pages
Single sign-on between IBM® EMM and IBM® Digital Analytics
Setting up single sign-on between IBM® EMM and IBM® Digital Analytics using automatic user account creation
Setting up single sign-on between IBM® EMM and IBM® Digital Analytics using manual user account creation
Configuring WebLogic for single sign-on between IBM® Digital Analytics and IBM® EMM
Configuring WebSphere for single sign-on between IBM® Digital Analytics and IBM® EMM
Integration between IBM® EMM and Windows Active Directory
Active Directory integration features
Active Directory integration prerequisites
Configuration process roadmap: Active Directory integration
Required information
About Distinguished Names
Group membership, mapping, and application access
Storing directory server credentials in Marketing Platform
Setting LDAP login method connection properties in IBM® EMM
Setting LDAP synchronization properties
Setting user attributes map properties
Mapping LDAP groups to IBM® EMM groups
Testing synchronization
Setting up an Active Directory user with PlatformAdminRole permissions
Setting the security mode to Windows™ Integrated Login
Restarting the web application server
Configuring Internet Explorer
Testing login as an Active Directory user
Integration between IBM® EMM and LDAP servers
LDAP integration features
LDAP integration prerequisites
Configuration process roadmap: LDAP integration
Required information
About Distinguished Names
Group membership, mapping, and application access
Storing directory server credentials in Marketing Platform
Setting LDAP login method connection properties in IBM® EMM
Setting LDAP synchronization properties
Setting user attributes map properties
Mapping LDAP groups to IBM® EMM groups
Testing synchronization
Setting the security mode to LDAP
Restarting the web application server
Testing login as an LDAP user
Integration with web access control platforms
SiteMinder integration prerequisites
Enabling single logouts with SiteMinder
Enabling the IBM® EMM Scheduler with SiteMinder
Enabling the IBM® EMM Data Filter with SiteMinder
Configuring settings in SiteMinder for IBM® Campaign
Configuring settings in SiteMinder for IBM® Contact Optimization
Configuring settings in SiteMinder for IBM® Marketing Operations
Configuring settings in SiteMinder for IBM® Distributed Marketing
Configuring settings in SiteMinder for IBM® Interact
Configuring settings in SiteMinder for IBM® SPSS® Modeler Advantage Marketing Edition
Tivoli® Access Manager integration prerequisites
Enabling the IBM® EMM Scheduler with Tivoli®
Enabling the IBM® EMM Data Filter with Tivoli®
Configuring settings in Tivoli® for IBM® Campaign
Configuring settings in Tivoli® for IBM® Contact Optimization
Configuring settings in Tivoli® for IBM® Marketing Operations
Configuring settings in Tivoli® for IBM® Distributed Marketing
Configuring settings in Tivoli® for IBM® Interact
Configuring settings in Tivoli® for IBM® SPSS® Modeler Advantage Marketing Edition
Configuration process roadmap: integrating IBM® EMM with a web access control system
Performing LDAP integration
Setting web access control connection properties in IBM® EMM
Restarting the web application server
Testing web access control synchronization and IBM® EMM login
Alert and notification management
Alert and notification subscriptions
Setting system alert and notification subscriptions
Configuring email subscriptions in IBM® EMM
Implementation of one-way SSL
Overview of SSL certificates
Client and server roles in IBM® EMM
SSL in IBM® EMM
Configuration process roadmap: implementing SSL in IBM® EMM
Obtaining or creating certificates
Self-signed certificates
Creating a certificate for a C++ applicationIBM® EMM components
Creating a certificate for Java™ IBM® EMM components
Obtaining signed certificates
Configuring your web application servers for SSL
Ensuring cookie security
Setting the flags for SSL in WebSphere
Setting the flags for SSL in WebLogic
Configuring IBM® EMM for SSL
Configuring SSL in Marketing Platform
Configuring SSL in Marketing Platform with LDAP integration
Configuring SSL in Marketing Platform with data filters
Configuring SSL in Interaction History
Configuring SSL in Attribution Modeler
Configuring SSL in Marketing Operations
Configuring SSL in Campaign
Configuring SSL in Contact Optimization
Configuring SSL in Interact
Configuring SSL in Distributed Marketing
Configuring SSL in Reports
Configuring SSL in Digital Analytics for On Premises
Verifying your SSL configuration
Useful links for SSL
Data filter creation
Overview of data filter creation
Data filter associations to restrict user access
Data filter concepts
Two ways to create data filters: automatic generation and manual specification
Configuration process roadmap: manual specification of data filters
Installing Marketing Platform
Planning your data filter criteria: manual generation
Obtaining required information: manual specification
Creating the XML to specify data filters: manual specification
Populating the data filter system tables
Assigning users and groups to data filters
Data filter XML reference (manual specification)
About the IDs in the XML
AddDataConfiguration | dataConfiguration
AddLogicalFields | logicalFields | LogicalField
AddDataTable | dataTable
AddDataTable | dataTable | fields | TableField
AddDataFilters | dataFilters | DataFilter
AddDataFilters | dataFilters | DataFilter | fieldConstraints | FieldConstraint
AddAudience | audience
AddAudience | audience | fields | AudienceField
addAudienceTableAssociations | addAudienceTableAssociation | audienceTableAssociation
Example: Manually specifying data filters
Configuration process roadmap: automatic generation of data filters
Installing Marketing Platform
Planning your data filter criteria: automatic generation
Obtaining the JDBC driver for your database
Obtain required information: automatic generation
Creating the XML to specify data filters: automatic generation
Populating the data filter system tables
Assigning users and groups to data filters
Data filter XML reference (automatic generation)
About the IDs in the XML
AddDataConfiguration | dataConfiguration
AddLogicalFields | logicalFields | LogicalField
GenerateDataFilters
GenerateDataFilters | fixedFields | FixedField
GenerateDataFilters | profileField | ProfileField
AddDataTable | dataTable
AddDataTable | dataTable | fields | TableField
AddAudience | audience
AddAudience | audience | fields | AudienceField
addAudienceTableAssociations | addAudienceTableAssociation | audienceTableAssociation
AddDataFilters | dataFilters | DataFilter
AddDataFilters | dataFilters | DataFilter | fieldConstraints | FieldConstraint
Example: Automatically generating a set of data filters
Adding data filters after the initial set has been created
Data filter management
Restricting data access through user and group assignments
About advanced search
Performance
Data filter assignments
Viewing assigned data filters
Assigning users and groups to data filters
Removing data filter assignments
System and security logs
About the system log
System log configuration
Marketing Platform utilities
Setting up Marketing Platform utilities on additional machines
Marketing Platform utilities
alertConfigTool
configTool
datafilteringScriptTool
encryptPasswords
partitionTool
populateDb
restoreAccess
scheduler_console_client
Marketing Platform SQL scripts
ManagerSchema_DeleteAll.sql
ManagerSchema_PurgeDataFiltering.sql
ManagerSchema_DropAll.sql
SQL scripts for creating system tables
IBM® EMM configuration properties
Marketing Platform configuration properties
General | Navigation
General | Data filtering
General | Password settings
General | Miscellaneous
General | Communication | Email
Platform
Platform | Scheduler
Platform | Scheduler | Recurrence definitions
Platform | Scheduler | Schedule registrations | [Product] | [Object type]
Platform | Scheduler | Schedule registrations | [Product] | [Object type] | [Throttling group]
Platform | Security
Platform | Security | Login method details | Windows™ integrated login
Platform | Security | Login method details | LDAP
Platform | Security | Login method details | Web access control
Platform | Security | LDAP synchronization
Platform | Security | LDAP synchronization | LDAP reference to IBM® Marketing Platform group map
Platform | Notifications
IBM® Digital Analytics configuration properties
Coremetrics®
Coremetrics® | Integration | partitions | partition[n]
Interaction History Configuration Properties
Interaction History
Interaction History | navigation
Interaction History | partitions | partition[n] | datasource
Interaction History | partitions | partition[n] | configuration
Interaction History | partitions | partition[n] | CoreMetrics
Interaction History | partitions | partition[n] | CampaignAndInteract
Interaction History | partitions | partition[n] | eMessage
Interaction History | partitions | partition[n] | Reports
Attribution Modeler configuration properties
Attribution Modeler | navigation
AttributionModeler | AMListener
AttributionModeler | paritions | partition[n] | AMFields
Attribution Modeler | partitions | partition[n]
Attribution Modeler | partitions | partition[n] | dataSources
AttributionModeler | partitions | partition[n] | server | encoding
AttributionModeler | partitions | partition[n] | server | logging
Attribution Modeler | partitions | partition[n] | AdvancedOptions
Report configuration properties
Reports | Integrations | Cognos® [version]
Reports | Schemas | [product] | [schema name] | SQL Configuration
Reports | Schemas | Campaign
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | Offer Performance
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | [schema name] | Columns | [Contact Metric]
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | [schema name] | Columns | [Response Metric]
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | Campaign Performance
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | Campaign Offer Response Breakout
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | Campaign Offer Response Breakout | Columns | [Response Type]
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | Campaign Offer Contact Status Breakout
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | Campaign Offer Contact Status Breakout | Columns | [Contact Status]
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | Campaign Custom Attributes | Columns | [Campaign Custom Column]
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | Campaign Custom Attributes | Columns | [Offer Custom Column]
Reports | Schemas | Campaign | Campaign Custom Attributes | Columns | [Cell Custom Column]
Reports | Schemas | Interact
Reports | Schemas | Interact | Interact Performance
Reports | Schemas | eMessage
IBM® Marketing Operations configuration properties
Marketing Operations
Marketing Operations | navigation
Marketing Operations | about
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Approvals
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | templates
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | attachmentFolders
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Email
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | markup
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | grid
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | workflow
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | integrationServices
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | campaignIntegration
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | reports
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | invoiceRollup
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | database
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | listingPages
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | objectCodeLocking
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | thumbnailGeneration
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Scheduler | intraDay
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Scheduler | daily
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Notifications
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Notifications | Email
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Notifications | project
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Notifications | projectRequest
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Notifications | program
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Notifications | marketingObject
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Notifications | approval
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Notifications | asset
Marketing Operations | umoConfiguration | Notifications | invoice
Campaign configuration properties
Campaign
Campaign | Collaborate
Campaign | navigation
Campaign | caching
Campaign | partitions
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | eMessage
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | eMessage | contactAndResponseHistTracking
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | reports
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | validation
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | audienceLevels | audienceLevel
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | audienceLevels | audienceLevel | field[n]
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | dataSources
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | systemTableMapping
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | systemCodes
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | encoding
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | timeout
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | collaborate
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | spss
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | permissions
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | flowchartConfig
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | flowchartSave
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | dataProcessing
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | optimization
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | logging
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | flowchartRun
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | profile
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | internal
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | fileDialog
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | offerCodeGenerator
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Coremetrics®
Campaign | monitoring
Campaign | ProductReindex
Campaign | unicaACListener
Campaign | server
Campaign | logging
eMessage configuration properties
eMessage | serverComponentsAndLocations | hostedServices
eMessage | partitions | partition[n] | hostedAccountInfo
eMessage | partitions | partition[n] | dataSources | systemTables
eMessage | partitions | partition[n] | recipientListUploader
eMessage | partitions | partition[n] | responseContactTracker
Interact configuration properties
Interact runtime environment configuration properties
Interact | general
Interact | general | learningTablesDataSource
Interact | general | prodUserDataSource
Interact | general | systemTablesDataSource
Interact | general | systemTablesDataSource | loaderProperties
Interact | general | testRunDataSource
Interact | general | contactAndResponseHistoryDataSource
Interact | general | idsByType
Interact | flowchart
Interact | flowchart | ExternalCallouts | [ExternalCalloutName]
Interact | flowchart | ExternalCallouts | [ExternalCalloutName] | Parameter Data | [parameterName]
Interact | monitoring
Interact | profile
Interact | profile | Audience Levels | [AudienceLevelName]
Interact | profile | Audience Levels | [AudienceLevelName] | Offers by Raw SQL
Interact | profile | Audience Levels | [AudienceLevelName] | SQL Template
Interact | profile | Audience Levels | [AudienceLevelName | Profile Data Services | [DataSource]
Interact | offerserving
Interact | offerserving | Built-in Learning Config
Interact | offerserving | External Learning Config
Interact | offerserving | External Learning Config | Parameter Data | [parameterName]
Interact | services
Interact | services | contactHist
Interact | services | contactHist | cache
Interact | services | contactHist | fileCache
Interact | services | defaultedStats
Interact | services | defaultedStats | cache
Interact | services | eligOpsStats
Interact | services | eligOpsStats | cache
Interact | services | eventActivity
Interact | services | eventActivity | cache
Interact | services | eventPattern
Interact | services | eventPattern | userEventCache
Interact | services | eventPattern | advancedPatterns | autoReconnect
Interact | services | customLogger
Interact | services | customLogger | cache
Interact | services | responseHist
Interact | services | responseHist | cache
Interact | services | responseHist | fileCache
Interact | services | crossSessionResponse
Interact | services | crossSessionResponse | cache
Interact | services | crossSessionResponse | OverridePerAudience | [AudienceLevel] | TrackingCodes | byTreatmentCode
Interact | services | crossSessionResponse | OverridePerAudience | [AudienceLevel] | TrackingCodes | byOfferCode
Interact | services | crossSessionResponse | OverridePerAudience | [AudienceLevel] | TrackingCodes | byAlternateCode
Interact | services | threadManagement | contactAndResponseHist
Interact | services | threadManagement | allOtherServices
Interact | services | threadManagement | flushCacheToDB
Interact design environment configuration properties
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | reports
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | contactAndResponseHistTracking
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | contactAndResponseHistTracking | runtimeDataSources | [runtimeDataSource]
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | contactAndResponseHistTracking | contactTypeMappings
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | contactAndResponseHistTracking | responseTypeMappings
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | report
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | learning
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | learning | learningAttributes | [learningAttribute]
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | deployment
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | serverGroups | [serverGroup]
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | serverGroups | [serverGroup] | instanceURLs | [instanceURL]
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | flowchart
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | whiteList | [AudienceLevel] | DefaultOffers
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | whiteList | [AudienceLevel] | offersBySQL
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Interact | whiteList | [AudienceLevel] | ScoreOverride
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | server | internal
Campaign | monitoring
Contact Optimization configuration properties
Campaign | unicaACOListener
Campaign | unicaACOOptAdmin
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Optimize | sessionRunMonitor
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Optimize | MemoryTuning
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Optimize | AgentTemplateTables
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Optimize | userTemplateTables
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Optimize | AlgorithmTuning
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Optimize | Debug
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Optimize | DatabaseTuning
Campaign | partitions | partition[n] | Optimize | logging
Distributed Marketing configuration properties
Collaborate | navigation
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Attachment
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Attachment Folders
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Campaign Integration
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Datasource
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Flowchart
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | History
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Integration Services
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Listing Pages
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | List Manager
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Lookup Cleanup
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Notifications
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Notifications | Email
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Notifications | Project
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Notifications | System Task
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Performance
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Read Only Lookup Tables
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Reports
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Siblings
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Templates
Collaborate | UDM Configuration Settings | Workflow
IBM® SPSS® Modeler Advantage Marketing Edition configuration properties
SPSS | integration
SPSS | integration | partitions | partition [n]
SPSS | navigation
Opportunity Detection configuration properties
Opportunity Detection
Opportunity Detection | Navigation
Opportunity Detection | System | Interact Design Service
Opportunity Detection | System | Interact Connector
Opportunity Detection | logging
Customization of stylesheets and images in the IBM® EMM user interface
Preparing your corporate theme
Applying your corporate theme
Managing data filters
IBM® EMM configuration properties
Managing configurations
Managing application access
Managing internal groups
Managing internal user accounts
Managing schedules
Creating and managing dashboards
Managing alerts and notifications
Reporting SQL Generator
Cognos® configuration page
Campaign reporting schema: Offer Performance
Campaign reporting schema: Offer Response Breakout
Campaign reporting schema: Campaign Performance
Campaign reporting schema: Campaign Custom Attributes
Reporting schema response type
Reporting schema: Campaign custom column
Reporting schema: cell custom column
Reporting schema: offer custom column
Campaign reporting schema: contact metric
Campaign reporting schema: response metric
Interact reporting schema: Interact Performance
Campaign configuration properties
Interact configuration properties
eMessage configuration properties
Marketing Operations configuration properties
Marketing Platform configuration properties
Attribution Modeler configuration properties
Interaction History configuration properties
IBM® SPSS® Modeler Advantage Enterprise Marketing Management Edition configuration properties
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