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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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How to extract complete Lineage for Connection with API

We are unable to extract complete Lineage for connections and this is impacting the Lineage related jobs and ICP4D activities. Need API to extract complete Lineage for connection.
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 6 Future consideration

Analyze Hive transformation logic and export to Alation

Currently (Manta 42.13) when Manta is used to export Hive lineage to Alation, the dataflow objects created by Manta do not contain any description of the Hive transformation. It seems because Analysis phase is not done. Also when this is exported ...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Enable Manta to extract lineage from SAS scripts that use PROC IMPORT and PROC EXPORT statements

The SAS scanner for Manta currently does not support statements such as PROC IMPORT and PROC EXPORT For example PROC IMPORT DATAFILE = "&par_var_file" OUT = _var_pars_ DBMS = XLSX REPLACE; PROC EXPORT OUTFILE= "&template..xlsx This will he...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Missing support for Microsoft SQL server 2025

When will SQL Server 2025 be supported as Content Server or Data Source? As of today SQL server 2022 is most recent listed in clarity reports. Customers upgrading to most recent Windows environments are asking for SQL 2025 support.
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 2 Planned for future release

Enhancement Cognos Analytics REST API

Please enhance the existing operation on Content get/content/{id} with the possibility to add an extra field which is used to store the execution/runtime of a report (object)
about 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

behavior when 'overwriting' folder using copy should be merge instead of replace (or present user with an option)

When you copy a folder over another folder with the same name, you are prompted to overwrite or rename. If you overwrite it doesn't simply overwrite the files that exist in both the target and source folders, it replaces the entire content of the ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Include unsubscribe Link in watch item mails to allow convenient removal of subscriptions.

Overview This proposal outlines an enhancement to IBM Cognos that would allow users to unsubscribe from watch item notifications directly within the email, eliminating the need to manually navigate the Cognos interface. This feature would improve ...
10 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 1 Future consideration

Using QR Code for login in Mobile App with SSL or SSO

Lots of our customers using SSL and SSO for Cognos Analytics On Prem. Since Cognos Version 11.2.4 they also more and more use the Mobile App for consuming Dashboards. The point is that they currently have to enter the Dispatcher URL for connecting...
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Other 0 Not under consideration

Manta should allow user to include/exclude certain files from a list of files

We are utilizing Manta-SAS scaniner to scan .sas files from gitlab. To improve the efficiency and relevance of our scans, we aim to implement mechanisms that allow us to include or exclude specific .sas files based on certain criteria. This capabi...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Add API Support to retrieve parent and child assets in Data Lineage

Currently, The Data Lineage API's provide support to retrieve child assets. However there is no equivalent API to retrieve the parent assets of a given asset. this capability is essential to fully trace lineage both downstream and upstream - a cri...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration