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Idea For Limited Partition Locking for RI Related Objects

Lock just the partitions of related objects using a cascaded key structure when utilities are used to write to the database. Allows Db2 RI use to coexist with utility operation when it is impractical to lock all partitions of parents and children.
about 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 3 Not under 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

Improved message text for DSNU537I

DSNU537I displays a page set which is not allowed in the list. As the utility can not know what the user intends to do, the text should be changed to a more general text without naming a pageset. Why: 1) Assume userA runs COPY with 4 objects, one ...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

Enhance message DSNU180I with job name

When a utility collides with another utility we get message DSNU180I. It would help a lot it that message included the job name for the other utility execution. In our current case a COPY could not run as it is not compatible with the LOAD utility...
7 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 SP3

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 support pack 3 needed. As the documentation for Manta currently states that the latest version of BO supported is 4.3 SP 1 & 2. Lockheed requires SP 3 to be supported in order to sustain compatib...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

REBUILD - After recovery of TS is NPSI improvement

Recovered SEMHNSA Partition 1 which has a NPSI. Rebuild has no idea that only partition 1 was recovered and rebuilds all the partitions for NPSI XEMHUNSA. Believe improvements need to be made to make the REBUILD know that only partition 1 needs to...
over 2 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Is a defect

Export MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation

We request to support export of MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation.
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Use the same connection in different projects so when we run Discover/Get lineage using MANTA, MANTA will recognized the connection as the same connection.

Today if we use the same connection in different projects, when we run Discover/Get lineage using MANTA from each project, MANTA recognized it as different connections . this situation casus "confusion" for manta as it cannot determine which conne...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Needs more information

File System that are derived in Manta should be marked as Derived

At my organization, the Informatica Power Center is used to process critical data elements (CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, 2, Salesforce, Filesystem Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance S...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

No Implicit Runstats when running Reorg that materializes pending DDL

When a REORG is run to materialize a pending DDL change, the REORG enforces an inline statistics (RUNSTATS) even though no statistics keywork is added to the REORG statement/card. it defaults to TABLE(ALL) INDEX(ALL). This obviously can impact acc...
over 4 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 1 Future consideration