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Data Lineage by Manta

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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...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 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...
11 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Exporting Lineage

We need that the exported file will contain resource key and will contain column lineage and in the same structure of the imported csv file. All this are not supported in current export lineage csv file.After changing the table structure we expect...
25 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

OpenLineage Export to Alation

We need ability to export lineage integrated onto Manta leveraging OpenLineage connector to be exported to Alation. It could be accomplished in either of the two ways: Integrate OpenLineage Export to Alation Catalog for the same source Export Open...
27 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

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 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Submitted

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 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

IFPC workflow should show target when the source is executing dynamic commands in a session or vice versa

Truist uses Informatica Power Center to process critical data elements(CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, PWX,NRDB2,Salesforce, Filesystem Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance Stewards are us...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Allow Kerberos authentication with connectors.

We have been informed the only long term solution for a single ID within our network to get access to all our PostgreSQL databases is to make use of Kerberos. We have security constraints in place that prevent company wide access within our networ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Add ability to scan API lineage for BigQuery

Add ability to scan API lineage Milestone Epic in github: https://github.ibm.com/wdp-gov/tracker/issues/172457
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

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. ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Needs more information