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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

Allow a MASS DELETE as a recovery point for a tablespace

As we discussed in case TS019823289, we believe it's necessary to be able to use a MASS DELETE (recorded in SYSCOPY) as a recovery point for a tablespace. This would avoid reading large amounts of log files that, in our view, aren't necessary. We ...
4 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Submitted

Theme color option(s) for Welcome Background

Add options to allow for color customization of the Welcome background and panels for Create, Assistant, and Learn areas. Could allow for common color for entire area or for the various panels independently. Not having this does not allow for comp...
11 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Portal 1 Submitted

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...
11 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

REORG DISCARD for RTS history tables

The history data collected in SYSTABSPACESTATS_H and SYSIXSPACESTATSS_H are filled so quickly and causes huge impact on catalog and directory storage group. However the only maintenance mechanism available at the moment is delete command with wher...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

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, ...
12 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 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

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

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
about 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 2 Not under consideration

REORG DISCARD for utility-history-tables

We tried to establish a Housekeeping for the utility-history-tables.The first appoach was to execute a REORG DISCARD to remove old data from the two tables. This is not possible, because the DISCARD OPTION is not applicable for catalog or director...
8 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration