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AWS Glue Scanner for lineage

Many customer are based in AWS and wants to trace lineage from that platform including AWS Glue. Currently, we have Supervielle at Argentina that needs to include this scanner to complete their IKC SaaS functionality.
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Prompt to confirm the Takeover

In certain scenarios a Tablespace wouldn't have a NORMAL state at the Standby database. Depending on how important is that Tablespace and if it would be easily get back to NORMAL state or not, the user could decide to decline the Takeover. A table...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 2 Needs more information

Clear presentation in section_actuals, which part of the plan is currently running

It should be clear in section_actuals which part of the plan has actually "run" Please mark non-accessed lolepops as "-1" , "NA" in the section_actuals column of the activity table (event monitor for activities). Then this can be distinguished fro...
about 2 months ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Submitted

Document that Currently Committed semantics is always enabled on column-organized tables.

Product:Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows v11.5 & 12.1 Requirement:Currently Committed semantics is enabled on column-organized tables. This should be described in our Document.Here is a candidate. cur_commit - Currently committed configuration...
11 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 1 Under review

Data Lineage Trustworthiness -- Disclose the source of lineage in the MANTA Query API

Preamble:Interactive Brokers has an imediate need for this but there may be other customers, in my view in mature or advanced levels of Manta usage, that might benefit from this. Interactive Brokers is currently using Manta to produce data-lineage...
12 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Db2rest set a limit on the connection timeout.

With Db2Rest currently single user (without any permissions) can disable whole rest service for everyone for around 19 minutes. If user, by mistake, uses isSSLConnection:True and port 50000 when requesting for authentication token at v1/auth/ endp...
13 days ago in Db2 / Other/Unknown 0 Submitted

Access to information ingested with Manta for reporting purposes (e.g. "which of the 15k database columns in our scope have upstream lineage)

The information provided by Manta is not only for users utilizing the UI. We have a heavy reporting machinery checking if the content satisfies the data governance requirements for key assets. That means that we need to be able to retrieve lineage...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Preserve auto-mapping entries after review scan revision is created

Background In Manta 42.14.0, when a new revision is created, older entries from the Automapping screen that were created during previous scans, are deleted. Why is this Problem This is painful because when userA is reviewing auto-mapping entries, ...
13 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

OpenLineage Export to Alation

Thia is in continuation to an earlier Idea, https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-67, wherein the OpenLineage export is working only when it is connected to an auto-scanned source but the respective Alation data source catalog does...
27 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Under review

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
about 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Not under consideration