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This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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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Data Lineage by Manta

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Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Planned for future release

Manta Alation Export - SAML Authentication Support

Current version of Manta does not support SAML authentication for Alation export connection. Currently, we are using a work around in place by using a local account for Alation export authentication. According to our company security policy, this ...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

OpenLineage Export to Alation

We need ability to export lineage integrated onto Manta leveraging OpenLineage connector to be exported to Alation. It could be accomplished in either of the two ways: Integrate OpenLineage Export to Alation Catalog for the same source Export Open...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

Kafka and S3 interfaces

Lack of support for Lineage Metadata Import within CP4D for S3 (or other object storage services) Lack of support for Lineage Metadata Import within CP4D for Kafka (furthermore, I don't even think Kafka is a supported connection type at all in CP4...
almost 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

Ability to show Business Terms, Quality Scores, Data Rules, Stewards, etc...from a lineage graph

In IGC this was accomplished by creating a Template and applying that template to a lineage graph - when you downloaded the lineage to a pdf, the template was applied. Please see a sample of the pdf attached to this idea.
almost 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release