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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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Possibility for user to select storing dataset as parquet-file or as db2 dataset.

We are having issues with db2 datasets (Some datasets originally stored as parquet files can not be stored as db2 datasets) while evaluating this new feature. In meantime users can not create new datasets to production.
about 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Is a defect

cDb2 Database names shown in Manta Flow Server lineage should match Database names used in underlying Connection String

We saw an issue while scanning cDb2 Databases in Manta, it shows the databases names that comes from the database engine. In other words, the values that is shown while running the command: 'VALUES (CURRENT SERVER);` in the databases is shown and ...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

enhance "Finding report dependencies" in Framework Manager to extend it to cover datasets

More and more clients are using datasets to speed up their dashboards within Cognos - the speed of the dashboard has always been that one thing where Cognos seriously is behind on other products like Qlik and PowerBI). Without this functionality C...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Data module: Publish, change impact, and report dependencies

It would be nice to have the same funcionality for publish, change impact, and report dependencies like in Framework Manager
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Not under consideration

Support movement of files in Git

Followup from TS019921735, TS016610424 and HD-6863. Background: Our users use Manta to scan SAS code or IFPC files stored in various Git repositories to build lineage. This is very convenient because we can block access to users to the backend (be...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Data modules - Possibility to control access to different data sources

We want to control which data sources (Packages, Data sets, Files, Data Modules, Databases) our customers could use when they create and edit data modules. Currently there is no possibilty to restrict the available data sources. Initially they sho...
almost 4 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Not under consideration

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition for Lineage scanner
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

[Manta Admin UI] Hive scanner connection validation for kerberos authentication fails with errors

why is it useful? Every scanners we have worked so far like IFPC, DB2, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Netezza, Microstrategy has validate button in Manta Admin UI. It gives a confidence to users that all pre-requisites are met w.r.t connectivity from Manta...
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

Star schema grouping in data modules

Add this functionality that is present in FM and it is important. Every cognos users would benefit a quick construction of schemas that clarify which path the query is following when you have many tables connected.
over 2 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 4 Not under consideration

Data Modules Complex Join Editor

Within Data Modules - when do you decide to give the user an editor rather than a very basic user interface?For example, you can enter a calculation with a simple creator OR AN EDITOR allowing you to build complex calculations.You can create a fil...
9 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Planned for future release