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    Manta to support dynamic calls in COBOL Scanner

    Background Assume there are two COBOL files (parent.cbl and child.cbl) In parent.cbl we see below lines // variable DATESUB contains child.cbl 77 DATESUB PIC X(08) VALUE 'child '. // parent calls child using variable DATESUB CALL DATESUB USING DAT...
    3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Not under consideration

    Improve Manta's PowerExchange file reader scanner's lineage by showing the source and target file system

    Issue When Manta is used to scan the PowerExchange (PWX) file reader in Informatica PowerCenter, it successfully parses the PWX component. However, it does not display the actual source and target files based on the information available in the wo...
    4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Under review

    Create an Archive checker to validate L1 backups

    We need a tool that validates the Level1 backups in a similar manner of the L0 backups arch-checker
    about 2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Allow online index builds of functional indexes

    The fact that we can't build functional indexes online effectively precludes them from use - or at least, makes it very difficult, as we can't do offline builds without an outage - which is expensive
    2 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted
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    Informix should be able to change owner on tables and any other objects

    If user=informix creates all database and all tables, then programmer creates table but user=informix cannot change it. Only drop it.
    over 9 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Future consideration

    Increasing LO_hdr_partn size limit in every chunk in sbspace Metadata partition

    We have a system with a lot of users and big amount of BLOB/CLOB data. It's critical 24x7 application. It should be created a new sbspace about 1TB - with 8 chunks x 140GB every 6 months, because the limit in LO_hdr_partn in sbspace Metadata Parti...
    8 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Manta COBOL scanner should support Assembly code.

    Manta COBOL scanner fails with parsing error when it encounteres assembly code. There are two ways to resolve this. 1. Refactor the assembly code to COBOL program (Manual approach) 2. Add support for assembly code in Manta COBOL scanner Option #2 ...
    3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

    onmode -I <error No> should have an optional flag to automagically turn off the trapping

    Real world, intermittently I see a 208 error from the app layer, typically in batches of 100 or so and normally at inconvenient times. This would allow me to set the onmode -I and walk away until the error trips and not having the server swamped w...
    3 months ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    Fix Download of Manta exports when the export is large

    Background When a user exports a large repository, the workflow completes successfully and the export text files are generated. However, downloading the resulting ZIP file often fails initially due to a timeout enforced by the load balancer (which...
    about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Unhide Synonyms from Lineage

    A common pattern in data warehouses, especially with DB2, is to use Synonyms (DB2 calls those Aliases) to allow tables to be updated without impacting running queries and data integration processes or causing wrong/partial data to be displayed. Un...
    5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

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