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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Data Lineage by Manta

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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 ...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Delivered

Manta Lineage Export in Default Mode to Alation with SSO Enabled

Currently Manta is able to export lineage to Alation in "DEFAULT" mode based on the Service Account credentials which would auto-generate Refresh Token to upload lineage, without adversely impacting the process due to session expiry as in the case...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Delivered

Add ability to scan API lineage for BigQuery

Add ability to scan API lineage Milestone Epic in github: https://github.ibm.com/wdp-gov/tracker/issues/172457
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Delivered

Support Alation Authentication methods

Current State: Alation currenltly supports two ways of authenticating ( https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/authentication-into-alation-apis ) 1. Register your application (Manta) as an OAuth 2 client 2. Use a refresh token Manta currently supp...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Delivered

WKC - Data Lineage / Import - Db2 z/OS not supported and not integrated

Issue is WKC Lineage does not support or provide integration with IBM Db2 z/OS Manta support's Db2 z/OS, but WKC does not work Db2 z/OS. No integration with add-on or Manta
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Delivered

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 Delivered