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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...
11 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, ...
13 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Access to information ingested with Manta for reporting purposes (e.g. "which of the 15k database columns in our scope have upstream lineage)

The information provided by Manta is not only for users utilizing the UI. We have a heavy reporting machinery checking if the content satisfies the data governance requirements for key assets. That means that we need to be able to retrieve lineage...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

OpenLineage Export to Alation

Thia is in continuation to an earlier Idea, https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-67, wherein the OpenLineage export is working only when it is connected to an auto-scanned source but the respective Alation data source catalog does...
27 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 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...
about 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Not under consideration

Manta to natively support scanning of ADF (Azure Data Factory) jobs to provide Technical data lineage.

At this point Manta doesn't have native scanner for ADF, but instead requires source-target mapping using Open Manta Designer. Few our customers (WSIB, Bombardier) are looking for native scanner support in Manta
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Not under consideration

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

Integrate HashiCorp Vault secret management

We want to be able to pull secrets (usernames and passwords) from HashiCorp Vault paths to populate connection fields in the Manta. As we grow the number of connections we have so to does the maintenance upkeep when we need to update passwords, if...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Manta to support dynamic calls in COBOL Scanner

Background Assume there are two COBOL files (parent.cbl and child.cbl) In parent.cbl we see below lines // variable DATESUB contains child.cbl 77 DATESUB PIC X(08) VALUE 'child '. // parent calls child using variable DATESUB CALL DATESUB USING DAT...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Not under consideration