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

Support for integrations with Splunk and DataDog

This would be used to search, monitor, analyze, and visualize machine-generated big data in real time.
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.
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Support column-level lineage export to Alation for filesystems

This request builds upon https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-40 which added support for expeorting lineage for filesystems to Alation. The above feature could not export column-level lineage because Alation did not have an API to import column-l...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Connector for Cloud Pak for Data to SAP BW with SNC and Username/Password Authentication

This idea proposes the development of a native connector between IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) and SAP BW, enabling secure and efficient access to SAP BW data for analytics and AI workloads.The connector should support: SNC (Secure Network Communi...
6 months ago in Connectivity 0 Submitted

SAP Odata connector must support filters applied on properties that are not present in the returned dataset

Currently, the connector is able to filter based on the properties returned in the dataset by composing URLs like:.../YPP_CP_TASK_CP4DResults?$filter=A4YPP_CP_TASKZCPR_PROJ eq '802-P0009'. The SAP OData service allows the definition of properties ...
9 months ago in Connectivity 0 Under review

DataStage job lineage must properly support parameterized and reusable jobs and sequence jobs, accurately tracking runtime parameters and variables.

a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb; } tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6; } tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5; } A significant portion of DataStage development relies on reusable and parameterized jobs. Jobs are typically organized in...
12 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Extract automated lineage from some IFPC Command Tasks (unused, chmod, cp, mv, rm)

This is a follow up to https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-60 that asks for automated extraction of all Command Tasks invoked by informatica power center. Since IFPC developers can invoke any executable in the command task, it is technically dif...
13 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Micostrategy SaaS support

It seems Microstrategy business strategy with their current customers is to force them to move from on-prem to SaaS. For all our customers who are using Microstrategy on-prem and our IKC + Manta solution for data governance and lineage will have a...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Use Query Logs for Lineage and Usage Analysis

Lineage collection today depends on explicitly defined data flows and relationships between data assets. This process leaves holes in the data lineage flows. However, if IKC could start collecting, analyzing and parsing query logs during Metadata ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration