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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    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

    Add Support for Hash and Hash iterator Objects in SAS Code Scanner

    CWB leverages Hash and Hash Iterator Objects in our SAS code. Manta currently fails to parse these which has resulted in gaps in lineage, preventing end to end lineage . The details of the needed HASH support can be found here: https://documentati...
    12 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

    Support for Complex File Formats in Manta Lineage

    So the idea here is to augment the Filesystem flow model and introduce the notion of file section by adding the notion of file section but make it optional. This means that a given customer could choose to model file with sections or a file withou...
    about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Needs more information

    Generate UUIDs in DB2

    Oracle (sorry to compare!) has ability to generate a UID. We are looking for this function in DB2 Zos and LUW. Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) -- In Oracle Oracle sequences are frequently used to provide unique numbers for primary keys where an...
    over 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development / Other/Unknown 3 Future consideration

    Integrate use of Alation's delete API in the Manta to Alation connector to export lineage.

    Recent discussion with IBM and the Alation vendor has clarified what lineage is actually shown in Alation for items that we previously thought would always be showing Manta's current lineage. Relative to this topic, Alation does not have an intern...
    7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Needs more information

    DB2 community edition for Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution.

    I have Linux on my computers and have used Ubuntu 22 and 24, I have had no problem running DB2 community edition 12.1 . But I converted to Ubuntu - Pop!_OS distribution, and the DB2 said it did not recognize my linux distribution. Please make it w...
    7 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Not under consideration

    Data transfer between different database schema

    Referring to the IBM - TS019130593 - Rational Licensing - 9362997; Database should have the functionality to transfer data between schemas and allow creating new schemas which can be pointed to the IBM ART tool instead of sticking to one ARTDATA.....
    7 months ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Functionality already exists

    Better JDBC 4.3 support in the JDBC/JCC driver of Db2 11.5.5

    As the knowledgecenter states in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPGG_11.5.0/com.ibm.db2.luw.wn.doc/doc/c_ds_clients_drivers_11-5-5.html "JCC supports new APIs from JDBC 4.3 specification with this release. ... JDBC 4.3 specification...
    about 5 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 4 Not under consideration

    XML type support in Db2 stored procedure debugger

    XML data type is not supported in Db2 stored procedure debugger in Data Studio or Visual Studio add-in. We are developing our support for SEPA and ISO 20022 projects using Db2 z/OS native stored procedures. They both heavily depend on XML. It woul...
    about 4 years ago in Db2 / Application Development 0 Future consideration

    Functions to transform DB2 XML to JSON data and the other way around

    if you have a table with a XML column it will be nice to be able to export the xml part of the data in a JSON format it will also be nice to be able to update the XML data with input in JSON format.
    about 1 year ago in Db2 / Application Development 1 Under review

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