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Data Lineage by Manta

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    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 ...
    11 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

    Manta Talend scanner should be able to parse jobs implementing the Dynamic Schema feature of Talend

    Manta does not currently support Talend's Dynamic Schema feature. The Dynamic Feature dynamically derives the metadata from source. This is a common pattern used in Talend jobs in scenarios where number of attributes is unknown. For example, selec...
    4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

    Manta export to Alation OCF - Power BI

    AbbVie is unable to export Power BI resources from Manta to an Alation OCF (Open Connector Framework) existing Power BI source. They are only able to get a successful Power BI to Alation OCF when the Power BI source on Alation side is brand new wi...
    over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Manta SAS Lineage | Support for "SYMPUT" in SAS routine

    The call of the SAS routine SYMPUT (call symput) in the SAS codes is being ignored by the Manta analyzer, resulting in null values getting assigned to the macro variables used in the call statement. There are instances of these variables being use...
    14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Proposal for Fine-Grained RBAC and Least-Privilege Access in Manta

    Background The role Configurator (aka ROLE_CONFIGURATOR) and Process Manager (aka ROLE_PROCESS_MANAGER) in Manta bundle multiple capabilities. These roles are not sufficiently granular, and therefore prevent us from assigning permissions to users ...
    18 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    File System that are derived in Manta should be marked as Derived

    At my organization, the Informatica Power Center is used to process critical data elements (CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, 2, Salesforce, Filesystem Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance S...
    over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Ability to interrupt export process to Alation

    (opened as a side-effect of production incident TS020891437) Background: When Manta uploads lineage to Alation, it starts a thread on the MantaFlow server process. This is unlike extraction and analysis processes wheere there are seperate processe...
    5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Visually distinguish lineage added by scanners vs other means

    Lineage can be added to Manta via two broad methods: 1. Via the built in scanners 2. Via API's Manta exposes (Open Manta Desinger, Open Lineage, Open Manta Extentions) There is a need to distingush between the two because: 1. It allows us to under...
    7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    DataStage - More detail in Transformation Stages

    Currently, at the time of writing, Manta is not able to provide further lineage detail beyond a Direct Edge for Transformation Stages. The documentation states: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/manta-data-lineage?topic=datastage-integration-requirement...
    8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

    Publish an API to access "Active Tag" import process warning log.

    Refer: TS021128898 for details. Currently Manta allows adding Active Tag to table columns in Manta flow-viewer. For this we do execute a workflow with a "Open MANTA Extentions" connection and attach a CSV file which contains the list of column tha...
    11 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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