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My votes: Data Lineage by Manta

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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...
8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Improve Manta's PowerExchange file reader scanner's lineage by showing the source and target file system

Issue When Manta is used to scan the PowerExchange (PWX) file reader in Informatica PowerCenter, it successfully parses the PWX component. However, it does not display the actual source and target files based on the information available in the wo...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Under review

How to show data quality shown in column/lineage for special data quality measurement cases?

Your goal is to show the data quality on the lineage, right? We have a couple "special cases" we're not sure how to handle. First is related to "virtual tables" (as in IA terminology - I believe they are called something else in IKC). The Data rul...
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Under review

Simplify Lineage Creation by Enabling Direct input and Remove Zipped SQL File Dependency

During testing we encountered limitations Where certain stored Procedure or queries are not directly recognized by the system As a workaround IBM recommends saving the store procedure or query in .sql file and zipping it, and uploading it during t...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

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...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Manta Microstrategy scanner to support OIDC authentication

Why is it useful ? MicroStrategy at Truist supports standard authentication if the connecting application (in this case, Manta) uses host:port instead of the web URI domain (aka. load balancer name) in the connection string. Standard Authenticatio...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Support EXEC CICS statements in COBOL scanner

Background: we have requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that intera...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 SP3

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 support pack 3 needed. As the documentation for Manta currently states that the latest version of BO supported is 4.3 SP 1 & 2. Lockheed requires SP 3 to be supported in order to sustain compatib...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

Lineage export to Alation for Manta OOTB scanners

We have noticed that Manta doesn't have an OOTB capability in the product to export lineage to Alation Catalogue for the auto-scan technologies. Here are the key ones for which lineage from Manta needs to be allowed to integrate with Alation OOTB....
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Support for REST Batch Query services in Manta's Query API

This feature request suggests the enhancement of Manta's current Query API with three additional REST services: POST /public/v1/rev/{rev}/nodes/batch/search-by-name -- Batch search the Manta repository by a list of node names POST /public/v1/rev/{...
12 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review