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Ability to handle xml and xsd files in IKC

Hello Desjardins would like to see whether there can be any way to parse xml, xsd files in IKC. He also showed me the capability that parses xml in IGC. IKC cannot parse semi-structured data currently, but Datastage has xml parser which can be use...
10 days ago in Knowledge Catalog 1 Submitted

Connection from CPD Manta for data lineage to Azure Managed Instance using the service principal/entra ID

Due to the security systems around our clients data, the security team has requested that we use service principals/entra ID when connecting to the Azure SQL/Managed databases/instances.
19 days ago in Connectivity 1 Submitted

Manta to natively support scanning of ADF (Azure Data Factory) jobs to provide Technical data lineage.

At this point Manta doesn't have native scanner for ADF, but instead requires source-target mapping using Open Manta Designer. Few our customers (WSIB, Bombardier) are looking for native scanner support in Manta
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Submitted

Need ability to shutdown IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC) in an orderly fashion

Today, there is no documented way today to shutdown IKC The customer requires a way to shutdown IKC to perform server room maintenance. Desjardins is asking questions about the order and steps to shutdown CP4D (IKC, datastage, foundation…)TS017408...
2 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 2 Planned for future release

The deployment space needs to mount storage volume as /mnt as like in the project.

This enhancement idea is from the relevant case TS017651653 (PC) - Storage volume is not mounted in a pod deployed in the deployment space. When a connection for storage volume is added in a project, runtime pods created in that project have mount...
2 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Watson Machine Learning (Enter against watsonx.ai) 0 Submitted

Allow RECOVER INDEX BACKOUT YES for index with COPY NO

The RECOVER TABLESPACE with BACKOUT YES is a relatively new recover option. It tells Db2 RECOVER to start with the current state of the tablespace and read the data change log backwards to find all recent changes to the tablespace and undo those c...
25 days ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Under review
536 VOTE

Allow Custom Sorting of contents like Folders, Reports and Packages

Ability to control custom sorting of contents has been removed from v11. This is highly required item by our business community. Arranging the contents by alphabetical order is not sufficient. Not adding this feature back will be a big negative.
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 5 Not under consideration

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...
11 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Custom Image Approach to Integrate Advanced IDEs such as PyCharm or Visual Studio Code (VSCode) in Watsonx/CP4D

In the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Watsonx/CP4D, Python development is currently facilitated through Watson Studio Notebook and JupyterLab Integrated Development Environment (IDE). While these tools are sufficient for many users, more techni...
21 days ago in watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Please remove the error -21569 when accessing via the SQL Admin API

If you use a dbaccess or other client of a version older than 15.0.0.0 with the SQL Admin API to retrieve information from large tables, you get the error message -21569 'this client cannot create or open tables that use large rowids'. For example...
26 days ago in Informix / Informix Server 0 Submitted

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