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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...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Advanced Formatting Options Applied in Dashboards, Explorations, and Stories

In Data Modules you can format an item using advanced options such as patterns etc. I want to be able to apply patterns on dates in particular. It works fine in reporting but does not appear the same way in my dashboard. Per the documentation it s...
5 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

ability to include same application as up and downstream on OMD

Today Open Manta Designer doesn't allow to draw lineage in both sides to a given application. It needs to be only up OR downstream to a main app. However, we have a lot of cases where an app is at same time, up and downstream to a main app. We ope...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

File based ingestion using IBM Manta Data Lineage

Nordea cannot connect direct DB technologies for security reasons and require file based Data Lineage and metadata ingestion for following connectors - ORACLEMSSQLHiveMicrosoft SSISMicrosoft SSASPowerBIInformaticaJava
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Object Level Security at Table and Field Level for Data Modules

Data Modules do not currently have a way to specify object level security at the table or field level the way Framework Manager does. You should be able to set which tables and fields a particular user or group of users is able to see. There are m...
about 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 3 Future consideration

Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

Why is it useful? We have some legacy COBOL files that errors out with parsing error since it follows a different coding pattern for comments. The comments are included between REMARKS. and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in COBOL program. Currently, Manta d...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Manta can support more datasource such as doris and clickhouse

We are a lot of customers that they are using dorisdb and clickhouse,They have a demand to organize their lineage. Such as Foxconn. We hope that in the future we can add clickhouse and Dorisdb to support datasource.
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Introduction of Framework 'View Transaction History' log or similar concept for Data Modules to capture changes.

The 'View Transaction History' log within Framework was a good way to identify evolving changes on a FM project. Data Modules, by my understanding, do not have this facility. This type of enhancement for DM's would be beneficial for developers to ...
over 1 year ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 2 Future consideration

Manta COBOL lineage should show paragraph name instead of MOVE statements

Background During lineage validation, we found that for technical users MOVE statements do not add any value to data lineage. Instead, PARA names are more meaningful than having the MOVE statement in the data lineage. It helps them to quickly rela...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Cobol Scanner should recover when *, identification Area is present in column 72 of COBOL code

At my organization, some COBOL programs in production import copybooks, and those copybooks may themselves include other copybooks. For example, the program flow might look like: olila12p.cob → DPBAUTW0.cpy → DPSINSCC.cpy However, the Manta COBOL ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration