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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Data Lineage by Manta

Complete Data Lineage within our Data Platform products - IBM Data Replication (IDR)

We use to have this data lineage in IGC for (IDR). Currently this IDR has been split into 2 product group - IBM Data Replication (IDR)/ IBM InfoSphere Data Replication (IIDR) are same software just difference licensing method. I believe this stand...
15 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Enable support for IBM Db2 Warehouse as a data source for Data Lineage import in IBM Knowledge Catalog (IKC).

IBM Db2 Warehouse is a critical data platform used by many organizations for analytical workloads, reporting, and business insights. However, it is currently not supported for Data Lineage import in IKC, which creates a significant visibility gap ...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Expand IBM Manta / IKC metadata harvesting support to cover PBIP (Power BI Project) format and additional Tableau file formats (.hyper, .tde, .twbr)

IBM Manta and IKC currently support metadata harvesting and lineage stitching for Power BI .pbix files and Tableau formats .twb, .twbx, .tds, .tdsx. Two gaps were identified during a client engagement with Bradesco (Brazil): 1. Power BI — PBIP for...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

AWS Glue Scanner for lineage

Many customer are based in AWS and wants to trace lineage from that platform including AWS Glue. Currently, we have Supervielle at Argentina that needs to include this scanner to complete their IKC SaaS functionality.
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Add support for MQ writer subtype in IBM Manta Informatica scanner

The IBM Manta IFPC scanner supports MQ Reader. But the subtype MQ writer is not supported. Any workflow that writes into a queue fails and nothing is loaded in the repository.
15 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Add support for DB2zOS subtype in IBM Manta Informatica scanner

DB2 is supported by the IFPC scanner. But the DB2zOS subtype is not supported. As a result, the workflow fails containing this type fails and does not load anything in the Manta repository. This is a major problem for a lot of systems that have DB...
15 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

COBOL Scanner Timeout and Continue Processing

Some COBOL programs/files take hours to analyze, causing scans to remain incomplete—even after 10 days—because processing does not move forward. Please add a per-program/file analysis timeout that: Is configurable in the scanner UI; if that is not...
19 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support Oracle lineage extraction in Data Guard read-only environments without requiring primary database access

DESCRIPTION Many enterprise Oracle environments use Oracle Data Guard architectures where governance and metadata tools are allowed to access only read-only standby databases, while direct access to production primary databases is restricted. Curr...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
almost 3 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Not under consideration