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Disallow Manta workflows with no connections

Current Behavior: If you create a workflow in Manta which mentions no workflow, it starts analysis and extract on ALL connections. This is very dangerous and can cause manta to crash. The situation becomes worse because after users realise what th...
about 14 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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.
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Data Lineage Trustworthiness -- Disclose the source of lineage in the MANTA Query API

Preamble:Interactive Brokers has an imediate need for this but there may be other customers, in my view in mature or advanced levels of Manta usage, that might benefit from this. Interactive Brokers is currently using Manta to produce data-lineage...
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Preserve auto-mapping entries after review scan revision is created

Background In Manta 42.14.0, when a new revision is created, older entries from the Automapping screen that were created during previous scans, are deleted. Why is this Problem This is painful because when userA is reviewing auto-mapping entries, ...
15 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Show existing Microstrategy projects when creating a new import

Customer was used to MITI legacy solution in previous versions of CP4Data. Now, we migrated to CP4Data 5.x and testing new MANTA connectors. They found this usability issue and would appreciate to implement a combo or list of existing projects to ...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Fix Download of Manta exports when the export is large

Background When a user exports a large repository, the workflow completes successfully and the export text files are generated. However, downloading the resulting ZIP file often fails initially due to a timeout enforced by the load balancer (which...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support for multiple Export Resource Mapping in Open Manta Extensions Connection

In the current setup of Manta Open Manta Extensions connections, we observe a limitation with the export configuration. The OME connection provides only One field to export Custom ETL lineage to external tools like Alation. When multiple custom ET...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Improve performance of Post processing scenario

(related support tickets TS019612628, TS019869998) As the size of the Manta repository grows, when we run an analysis workflow, the analysis may take 1-2 mins, but the post-processing and pruning scenarios take 40-45 mins, and in some cases even l...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta Talend scanner should be able to parse jobs implementing the Dynamic Schema feature of Talend

Manta does not currently support Talend's Dynamic Schema feature. The Dynamic Feature dynamically derives the metadata from source. This is a common pattern used in Talend jobs in scenarios where number of attributes is unknown. For example, selec...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Manta support for Informatica DEI "Data Engineering Integration"aka BDM "Big Data Management"

Informatica DEI or BDM is used extensivesly at our organization to read/write data from Hive tables and move data around the enterprise. having the ability to extract lineage automatically from this system, via Manta, would simply the effort requi...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted