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Data Lineage by Manta

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.
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 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...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

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...
8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 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...
12 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted

Oracle Data Integrator - Support for ODI Procs that have target tasks referencing columns which are retrieved by the source tasks

It would help show the relationships between target command and source command elements on the lineage graph. They are currently not showing as a result of what is described above
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta Under review

The proxy support in Alation export

Current Manta Alation export does not support proxy. In BMO, we need to export Manta data lineage to Alation Cloud Services (ACS) via IBM ESG or Netscope proxy. Without supporting proxy, we can not export Manta data lineage to ACS.
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta

Add support for collecting lineage when an Oracle database connects to a Teradata database via a database link

Summary Please add support for collecting lineage when an Oracle database link connects to Teradata. Today, Manta supports Oracle database links when the target is another Oracle database, but it does not support Oracle database links that point t...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

Manta OpenLineage| Manta not able to correctly recognize sas technology/table definition in lineage

To fix the following issue (ref case number: TS021700396):While scanning an OpenLineage JSON event where a Snowflake table is the input and a SAS table is the output, Manta successfully generates the lineage. However, the SAS table is incorrectly ...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Under review

Additional connectors for AWS Glue and AWS S3 for Lineage

Our customer leverages Glue and S3 significantly in their estate. Currently, to get this lineage, it will have to be via OpenLineage. Customer has requested a native way to import the lineage since we are able to scan these sources (MDI).
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Under review

Manta must support lineage extraction for Snowflake stored procedures, user-defined functions (UDFs), and Snowpark processes developed in programming languages

Why is it useful ? Snowflake is increasingly used not just for SQL transformations, but for procedural and programmatic logic via: Stored Procedures [Java, Python, JavaScript] User Defined Functions (UDFs) [Java, Python, JavaScript] External Funct...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Submitted