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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Data Lineage by Manta
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 3, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Ability to have "User-set server name" for all technology sources

We currently have “User-set server name“ for MSSQL Connection Configuration. This helps in displaying an Application Name in a standardized way in Flow Viewer that is understandable for the Business users. Since the name reflects as soon as the Analysis for a specific MSSQL source completes, there isn’t a need for manually setting Aliases for such applications to replace hostname.

Likewise. it would be good if “User-set server name“ property can be made available for all technology sources that Manta is able to connect and scan, so that we can avoid an additional activity of applying Aliases, which would be available as soon as Analysis completes and Business Users would easily understand the application that is being referred to, since hostname is too technical and not everyone would be familiar with such nomenclature.

Kindly let me know if any further information is needed in providing the requested change for Connections in Admin UI.

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  • Admin
    Yurii Plakhtii
    Oct 16, 2025

    User-defined names for servers are now natively supported in the latest data lineage product available in IBM Cloud Pak for Data and IBM Watsonx.data intelligence. More technologies will be delivered in this new product to achieve scanner parity. We are closing this idea, as we do not anticipate resolving it.

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  • Guest
    Apr 3, 2025

    Hi Yurii,

    Here is the list of technologies in the order of priority for which "User-set server name" needs to be enabled within Manta OOTB.

    1. Oracle

    2. PostgreSQL

    3. Teradata

    4. MySQL

    5. IFPC

    6. StreamSets

    7. Kafka

    8. Power BI

    9. Tableau

    10. SSAS

    Reply
  • Admin
    Yurii Plakhtii
    Apr 3, 2025

    Hello and thanks for posting this idea! We would like to check, which technologies you would consider the most important one for you to have support of the "User-set server name" ?

    Thanks in advance for answering!

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