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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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DB2 lineage repository shoud exclude intrinsic DB2XML schema

Why is it useful? DB2XML schema does not add any value to data lineage. It just adds confusion to users when it appears in repository view. Removing this DB2XML intrinsic schema from repository should help. Who would benefit from it? Manta users. ...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Manta Hive scanner does not support kerberos mode with system ticket

why is it useful? Manta documentation claims kerberos auth with system ticket works. In reality it does not work. Who would benefit from it? Manta users How should it work? Either drop the system ticket from Hive scanner or make this work. Environ...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Remove warning message related to password while cloning a git connection.

Manta version: 42.10.2 Problem When we clone sas connection that leverages git shows misleading warning message related to password even though the password is not required in the sas connection form. Steps to reproduce 1. Create git connection th...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

Control-M Scanner Availability

We have a lineage use case which caters to most of the business functions since Control-M is a standard scheduling application at Dell. We need Manta to be capable of scanning Control-M application since all the jobs tied to various applications a...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Lineage export to Alation for Manta OOTB scanners

We have noticed that Manta doesn't have an OOTB capability in the product to export lineage to Alation Catalogue for the auto-scan technologies. Here are the key ones for which lineage from Manta needs to be allowed to integrate with Alation OOTB....
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Support for Transfer of Table and Column level Custom attributes to Alation

Currently Manta does not supports the transfer of column or table level attributes to Alation. If a given application decides to enhance the metadata in Manta with additional attributes on Tables and/or Columns, it would bring value to a customers...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Future consideration

Manta support for Informatica Cloud (IICS/IDMC)

AbbVie has many workflows using Informatica Cloud not Informatica Power Center. In order to see lineage across systems we need to be able to scan the lineage from Informatica Cloud as well. Informatica Power Center (IFPC) Manta connector is workin...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Add screenTip to Cognos scanner

screenTip is a property of data elements in Cognos Framework Models that allows the developer of the model to explain that data element's meaning and/or how it should be used. If this property is captured in the scans, it can be made available in ...
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Manta Data Lineage: Support LDAP/AD Authentication for Redshift Connections

The current version of Manta only supports local account authentication for Redshift connection but does not support Azure AD authentication. Requesting that Manta supports the ability to authenticate Redshift connections with AD/LDAP users.
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Hive scanner should remove 'others' hive distribution

Problem statement: IBM Manta documentation does not talk much about others distribution. It only mentions about Apache and Cloudera. Given this information, user gets a element of surprise when they see 'others' option in Manta Admin UI for hive d...
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration