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ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY

ENHANCEMENT FOR REDIRECTED RECOVERY - CHECK SCHEMA ONLY The DB2 redirected recovery functionality allows RECOVER utility to be used to redirect the recovery of an object (the source) to another object (the target). The source and target objec...
about 3 years ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 6 Future consideration

Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

Why is it useful? We have some legacy COBOL files that errors out with parsing error since it follows a different coding pattern for comments. The comments are included between REMARKS. and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in COBOL program. Currently, Manta d...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Manta can support more datasource such as doris and clickhouse

We are a lot of customers that they are using dorisdb and clickhouse,They have a demand to organize their lineage. Such as Foxconn. We hope that in the future we can add clickhouse and Dorisdb to support datasource.
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Support SORTWK with EAV

We run a REORG on a tablepace (~5TB) with 3 IXs and need ~17TB sort space. One of the IX (an NPI) needs ~15TB. We had a pool with 30TB, but this does not help/count. Reason: As the allocation of the SORTWKs by DB2 is limited to 10TB (255 * the lim...
over 1 year ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration

Allow user to specify a fixed project ID when creating a project

Allow users to pre-define the project ID in a specified and tracked way. This would prevent projects from getting created with random sequences of characters every time and allow for a more centralized method of tracking.
4 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Under review

Manta COBOL lineage should show paragraph name instead of MOVE statements

Background During lineage validation, we found that for technical users MOVE statements do not add any value to data lineage. Instead, PARA names are more meaningful than having the MOVE statement in the data lineage. It helps them to quickly rela...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Give AI real Forward-thinking cognition, while cutting training and resources needed by 90%

Here are the primary benefits LFM contributes to general AI architecture: 1. Shift from Pattern Matching to Principled Derivation Traditional AI (including most large language models) excels at finding correlations and patterns in massive datasets...
about 2 months ago in Watson Studio / watsonx.ai 0 Submitted

Cobol Scanner should recover when *, identification Area is present in column 72 of COBOL code

At my organization, some COBOL programs in production import copybooks, and those copybooks may themselves include other copybooks. For example, the program flow might look like: olila12p.cob → DPBAUTW0.cpy → DPSINSCC.cpy However, the Manta COBOL ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Improve Error Logging & Line Number Traceability in SAS connector Parsing

Problem Statement Currently, when parsing errors occur in the Manta SAS Connector, the logs do not provide sufficient details about the root cause. For Example The error message often lacks the specific SAS code line number and the file name whe...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

REORG PREFORMAT of 1 TB page set should be interruptable

With PH64760 one can create 1TB page sets in one step. If one runs a REORG PREFORMAT on such large objects, the Media Manager Preformat task is not interruptable. Such a size of 1TB needs ~1.5hours to preformat the page set. In the meanwhile neith...
9 months ago in Db2 Utilities Suite for z/OS 0 Future consideration