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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

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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.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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



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Data Lineage by Manta

Enable support for IBM Db2 Warehouse as a data source for Data Lineage import in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC).

IBM Db2 Warehouse is a critical data platform used by many organizations for analytical workloads, reporting, and business insights. However, it is currently not supported for Data Lineage import in IKC, which creates a significant visibility gap ...
8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

View last extracted date for objects created by a connection

Current Problem: When I look at a (non-deduced) node in Manta, I am not sure when it was scanned. This becomes an inconvenience for me because :1. I am unable to confirm if I am in compliance with my enterprise governance policy of "ensure your da...
about 20 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

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...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Unified Lineage Manta connectors don't support HTTP Proxy

Unified Lineage Manta connectors don't support HTTP Proxy while Manta OEM supported. That is blocking the move from one solution to another which seems to be the strategy of IBM.
9 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 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.
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Functionality already exists

Support OAuth-based Git Authentication via Git CLI

Manta currently supports pulling files from Git repositories for scanning purposes. It uses the JGit library to establish Git connections. However, modern Git providers are increasingly moving away from static credentials (username/password or lon...
8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Enable StreamSets API access via OKTA authentication from Manta

We have noticed that StreamSets access through a Service Account is no longer working with OKTA authentication in place while validating the connectivity from Manta Admin UI. This is causing a disconnect in the lineage across the systems since Str...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

SSIS scan of event handlers that do not contribute to lineage should be logged as warnings, not errors.

While scanning SSIS dtsx packages using IBM Manta Data Lineage, we observed errors when SSIS System namespace variables are referenced inside event handlers specifically OnPostExecute. SSIS deployment in our organization does not use the MSSQL SSI...
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Complete Data Lineage within our Data Platform products

Hi Currently we have a few keys and very populars products that doesn't have a complete lineage. Higher Priority IBM Data Replication (we use to have it in IGC) wx.data integration (StreamSets) Confluence Flink IBM ESB (MQ) wx.data since...
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Integrated Data Lineage with Design Lineage from wx.data intelligence and Operation Lineage from wx.data integration

See information in this slack. wx.data intelligence can tell them what dashboard are affected if they plan to change these tables/columns (Impact analysis) assuming they uses tools that is supported by our scanner else it will be manual. Impact an...
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted