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Request that Manta Automatic Data Lineage add support for OAuth 2.0 authentication (e.g., service-to-service OAuth tokens or service principal OAuth flow) for Databricks connections in addition to or in place of Personal Access Tokens (PATs).

Databricks strongly recommends using OAuth access tokens instead of PATs for security, token refresh, and credential management best practices. OAuth offers stronger security and better lifecycle management than long-lived PATs, which are consider...
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Only records, which are valid at the current point in time should be considered in RUNSTATS

In environments where SQL queries typically consider only the data that is valid at the time of query execution, statistics based on exactly those records provide higher quality than statistics collected over the entire table. In environments with...
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 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...
5 days 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...
5 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.
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Support SQL function to unnest JSON data from arrays

Db2 has native JSON data support. It features functions like JSON_QUERY, JSON_TABLE, and others. However, it is not easy to unnest JSON data stored in arrays. This is required to map nested JSON data to table format. Some other vendors has this ca...
26 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

TEMPORAL TABLES & LBAC

We use system temporal tables (history) for business data. This data will be maintained be different customers. Each customer should just maintain and see his data and not the data of other customers. But we are allowed to see all the data from al...
9 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Support transformations for the OpenLineage Column Level Lineage dataset facet.

Why it is useful? Transformations are an integral part in any data flow representation. They comprise logic describing data, functions and process information that are vital for deriving lineage on an attribute. A field of an output in Column Leve...
23 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

pacemaker Quorum - pingable IP

This is related to AHA DB24LUW-I-2236. Pingable quorum is easy to manage and require less hardware / support.
8 days ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 0 Submitted

Create TABLESPACE IF NOT EXISTS

Some objects in Db2 LUW can use the IF NOT EXISTS in a CREATE (or IF EXISTS in a DROP), e.g. for TABLE. But the option is not available for Tablespaces. I believe it is available in other RDMS products e.g. SQL Server. Could the option be extended...
3 months ago in Db2 / Db2 on-premise 2 Under review