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    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

    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

    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

    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

    Support for ON DELETE SET NULL and ON UPDATE CASCADE clauses in FOREIGN KEY statements

    A customer wanted to use a construction like ALTER TABLE detail_table ADD CONSTRAINT FOREIGN KEY (link_column) REFERENCES master_table ON DELETE SET NULL; so that referencing values would be updated to NULL automatically if a parent row was delete...
    over 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Submitted

    Limited the number of row processed with an update/delete statement

    THis is similar to MS Server (and other DBs) DELETE ... TOP <N> and TOP <n> PERCENT This would help avoid LTX issues without custom SQL coding, it would minimize the time the table is locked UPDATE FIRST 10000 COUNT 0 ... N <table&g...
    about 1 year ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    CDC add configurable pameter max_recs in library ifx-changestream-client-1.1.3

    IBM library ifx-changestream-client-1.1.3 has a hardcoded parameter max_recs = 1, causing unacceptable lag in CDC operation. This lag can delays to several hours. Other solutions CDC with max_recs set to 64 on the same database can transmit data n...
    about 1 month ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

    ability to include same application as up and downstream on OMD

    Today Open Manta Designer doesn't allow to draw lineage in both sides to a given application. It needs to be only up OR downstream to a main app. However, we have a lot of cases where an app is at same time, up and downstream to a main app. We ope...
    4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

    How to show data quality shown in column/lineage for special data quality measurement cases?

    Your goal is to show the data quality on the lineage, right? We have a couple "special cases" we're not sure how to handle. First is related to "virtual tables" (as in IA terminology - I believe they are called something else in IKC). The Data rul...
    9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Under review

    Backup Individual database, not entire instance

    Need a mechanism, similar to ontape, to backup a live database (as opposed to entire instance), without locking it.
    over 10 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Not under consideration

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