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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Microstrategy Reports and Dossier objects with prompts support

Customer is concerned about documents and reports with prompts, as according to our approach we can only get object metadata if we execute the documents, what would happen with such objects that contain prompts? MicroStrategy will only execute doc...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Delivered

Manta SAP HANA scanner to support calculation view

Why it is useful? Calculation view are widely used in SAP HANA applications. There are a few key tables that get loaded via stored procedures and those stored procedures loads data from several calculation views and/or nested calculation view. Wit...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 8 Delivered

Upgrade Manta with an option to skip creation of backup folder

As we are aware, while upgrading manta (eg: from version 42.10.2 to 42.12.0), there is a creation of backup folder automatically by the upgrade script. This backup folder is just a copy of the Manta installation directory and it takes a huge space...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Delivered

To support any other WIF connection properties with Manta needs product enhancement.

MDI and MDE jobs using Google BigQuery and WIF are working fine. The existing WIF connections are not working with Manta Data Lineage MDI jobs. Currently, Manta only supports the "Client email", "Private key" and "Oauth2 Endpoint URI" with WIF con...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Delivered

Manta COBOL scanner should support SET verb with use of system function like CURRENT_DATE

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Delivered

Manta COBOL lineage doesn't show link between EXEC SQL blocks e.g. OPEN FETCH CLOSE EXEC SQL blocks

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Delivered

Lineage export to Alation for SAS tables should allow path to be used to identify tables instead of library name

Background: When column lineage is sent to Alation, it must have a alation_source_id, schema name, table name and column name. In case of SAS Grid tables, , the convention assumed is <alation_source_id>.<SAS Library ref name>.<Table...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Delivered

In Manta Admin UI - cDB2 connection validation should be successful when user is mapped to a DB Group/Role

Why is it useful? This ensures that required permissions needed by IBM Manta is in place. The scanner for cDB2 will produce desired data lineage for cDB2 database. Who would benefit from it? IBM Manta users. How should it work? In Manta Admin UI -...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Delivered

Request for Manta Data Export Format Alignment with Alation's Native Lineage Expectations

We need confirmation on how Manta exports lineage data to Alation to ensure it matches Alation's native lineage structure. Specifically, we are requesting details on: 1. Data Format: The exact format in which Manta sends data to Alation. 2. Lineag...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Delivered

Request to enable the creation of lineage with Watson Query (Data Virtualization)

In the current version of IKC (4.8.1), there is no capability to create lineage using Watson Query. After consulting with the IBM Customer Engineering (CE) team working on the UMAG POC, it appears that this functionality is not available. Enhancem...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Delivered