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Data Lineage by Manta

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Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path for RDBMS semi-structured(JSON, BLOB & CLOB) Columns

Problem : Currently Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path doesn't capture the RDBMS data dictionary beyond column level. There are multiple system which save the JSON/BLOB/CLOB into RDBMS columns. Need to have a way to represent the JSON/BLOB/CLO...
2 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Submitted

To support any other WIF connection properties with Manta needs product enhancement.

MDI and MDE jobs using Google BigQuery and WIF are working fine. The existing WIF connections are not working with Manta Data Lineage MDI jobs. Currently, Manta only supports the "Client email", "Private key" and "Oauth2 Endpoint URI" with WIF con...
16 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta Lineage Export in Default Mode to Alation with SSO Enabled

Currently Manta is able to export lineage to Alation in "DEFAULT" mode based on the Service Account credentials which would auto-generate Refresh Token to upload lineage, without adversely impacting the process due to session expiry as in the case...
9 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

Import PoweDesigner VIEWS in .pdm files

For Teradata Physical Data Models in PowerDesigner, the VIEWS are very important. When importing these Physical Data Models into IBM Knowledge Catalog, the VIEWS are not imported. All the data modeling tools that we know (PowerDesigner, ER Studio,...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Mapping Leaf Level Node to a Higher Level Node

We have a use case wherein we intend to link a Leaf Level Node in Manta to a Higher Level Node considering the functionality of process flow among the applications from different technologies. Manta may already have an understanding of IFPC hierar...
27 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Kerberos Authentication for the Cloudera Kafka connector

We use kerberos authentication on our cloudera schema registry, we were told by Manta support team to disable the authentication on our side to try the functionality while you finish the kerberos authentication development. We have successfully co...
29 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Lineage from SAS-grid should be able to export into Alation with correct representation

Background: SAS files are being scanned from SAS-grid (local file system or git location) and Manta is able to analyse those files to create required lineages in Manta. Now, when we try to export the lineage to Alation we are not able to get any. ...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Needs more information

Export MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation

We request to support export of MySQL lineage from Manta to Alation.
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration