IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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Data Lineage by Manta

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

    Show existing Microstrategy projects when creating a new import

    Customer was used to MITI legacy solution in previous versions of CP4Data. Now, we migrated to CP4Data 5.x and testing new MANTA connectors. They found this usability issue and would appreciate to implement a combo or list of existing projects to ...
    about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

    Manta Talend scanner should be able to parse jobs implementing the Dynamic Schema feature of Talend

    Manta does not currently support Talend's Dynamic Schema feature. The Dynamic Feature dynamically derives the metadata from source. This is a common pattern used in Talend jobs in scenarios where number of attributes is unknown. For example, selec...
    6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 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...
    22 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

    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...
    about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Manta export to Alation OCF - Power BI

    AbbVie is unable to export Power BI resources from Manta to an Alation OCF (Open Connector Framework) existing Power BI source. They are only able to get a successful Power BI to Alation OCF when the Power BI source on Alation side is brand new wi...
    over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    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...
    about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Manta SAS Lineage | Support for "SYMPUT" in SAS routine

    The call of the SAS routine SYMPUT (call symput) in the SAS codes is being ignored by the Manta analyzer, resulting in null values getting assigned to the macro variables used in the call statement. There are instances of these variables being use...
    2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Proposal for Fine-Grained RBAC and Least-Privilege Access in Manta

    Background The role Configurator (aka ROLE_CONFIGURATOR) and Process Manager (aka ROLE_PROCESS_MANAGER) in Manta bundle multiple capabilities. These roles are not sufficiently granular, and therefore prevent us from assigning permissions to users ...
    2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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