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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Use Query Logs for Lineage and Usage Analysis

Lineage collection today depends on explicitly defined data flows and relationships between data assets. This process leaves holes in the data lineage flows. However, if IKC could start collecting, analyzing and parsing query logs during Metadata ...
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta option to show aggregated node counts

It would be nice to have an option that shows the aggregated amount of child nodes at each level of the tree in the Manta UI, on the lineage selection page . This could be for instance a UI option or configuration option. The idea is that the cust...
2 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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.
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Support export of Matillion lineage from Manta to Alation

Why is it useful ? Alation at the enterprise is the application for viewing all catalog and metadata across the enterprise. Lineage from Manta is exported to Alation to build the catalog. Who would benefit from it ? Any LOB at the bank looking to ...
6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta to support Qlik Cloud

Background: jmartins@ibm.com from IBM confirmed that Qlik Cloud is not supported. Bank has enable Qlik Cloud and migration will start from Mid-March 2026 to Qlik Cloud Version info: Qlik Sense November 2024 Patch 12 and Qlik Cloud version: Nov 202...
20 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta Qlik Scanner: Add Support for Sheet-Level Variables

Problem Statement Currently, Manta’s (42.14.8 ) Qlik Scanner primarily captures variables defined at the app/document (global) level. However, many Qlik implementations define and override variables at the Sheet level to localize expressions (e.g....
9 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Differentiate Runtime and Design-Time Lineage in Manta UI

Manta currently displays lineage generated from OpenLineage RunEvent (runtime) and JobEvent (design-time) in the same way with no visual distinction between them. This makes it difficult for users to tell whether lineage represents what actually r...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support Column-Level Lineage in Manta to Alation Export for OpenLineage

Manta can ingest column-level lineage from OpenLineage, but this details is not preserved when exporting to Alation. As a result, only table-level lineage is visible in Alation and critical attribute-level relationships are lost. We propose enhanc...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support Microsoft Fabric

Support extracting lineage from Microsoft Fabric to Manta, so that Manta provides observability on Fabric jobs.
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review