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Data Lineage by Manta

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Scan openManta extension csv files from Git

There are several cases when external programs want to send lineage to Manta because Manta does not support a particular feature. For example, Manta doesnt support PROC EXPORT in sas, that connects a file to a sas program. Users can write external...
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Lineage for Dynamic views

In IBM Knowledge Catalog, there is a special asset type called "dynamic view" that allows you to create an asset based on an SQL query. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.2.x?topic=project-adding-dynamic-view-data-from-connection A ...
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Manta SAP HANA scanner to support calculation view

Why it is useful? SAP HANA at Truist uses calculation view intensively. There are a few key tables that get loaded via stored procedures and those stored procedures loads data from several calculation views and/or nested calculation view. Without ...
6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Enable Manta to extract lineage from sas scripts that use PROC IMPORT and PROC EXPORT statments

This will help Manta show a more complete lineage. If this is not psooible, and lineage must be set up manually, provide a tutorial show how to augment automated lineage with manual references to proc import and export
18 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Integrate use of Alation's delete API in the Manta to Alation connector to export lineage.

Recent discussion with IBM and the Alation vendor has clarified what lineage is actually shown in Alation for items that we previously thought would always be showing Manta's current lineage. Relative to this topic, Alation does not have an intern...
24 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Needs more information

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...
24 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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.
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta should allow user to include/exclude certain files from a list of files

We are utilizing Manta-SAS scaniner to scan .sas files from gitlab. To improve the efficiency and relevance of our scans, we aim to implement mechanisms that allow us to include or exclude specific .sas files based on certain criteria. This capabi...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support export of Microstrategy lineage from Manta Flow to Alation

Why is it useful ? Alation at Truist is the application for viewing all catalog and metadata across the enterprise. Lineage from Manta is exported to Alation to build the catalog. Who would benefit from it ? Any LOB at Truist looking to view linea...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 SP4

Background Currently Truist is on SAP BO 4.3 SP4. Per Manta documentation and IBM support, this is not supported. Why is it useful? This is need for National Review exam (tentative July EOM) to show case the data lineage with upstream and downstre...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release