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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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...
2 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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 ...
1 day 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

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....
5 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...
16 days 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.
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Scan SAS lineage from execution logs

Background: The Manta SAS scanner is unable to generate accurate lineage from SAS scripts that use a lot of variables that resolve at runtime. Depending on the extent of use, this can cause incorrect source and destination data (ie, Manta says tha...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Support Perspectives in Unified Lineage

(filing this to track as a follow up from a conversation with Caroline F) Background: Perspectives in (legacy) Manta are used by our organization to achive the following: 1. We mark some table columns as "critical". Users usually want to view the ...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta support for Vizlib objects in Qlik Sense Scanner

Problem Statement The Qlik Sense Scanner in Manta v42.14.8 currently does not support key Vizlib extensions and objects widely used in our Qlik Sense environment. Because these objects hold measures, dimensions, and variable expressions, Manta is ...
10 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