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Data Lineage by Manta

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Micostrategy SaaS support

It seems Microstrategy business strategy with their current customers is to force them to move from on-prem to SaaS. For all our customers who are using Microstrategy on-prem and our IKC + Manta solution for data governance and lineage will have a...
2 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Add support for SAP HANA technology in OpenLineage Events

While scanning OpenLineage event JSON that includes SAP HANA assets, Manta successfully generates lineage but incorrectly classifies SAP HANA tables as generic OpenLineage (OL) nodes instead of database table nodes. This results in: Incorrect vi...
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Submitted

Manta option to show aggregated node counts

It would be nice to have an option that shows the aggregated amount of child nodes at each level of the tree in the Manta UI, on the lineage selection page . This could be for instance a UI option or configuration option. The idea is that the cust...
7 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support export of Matillion lineage from Manta to Alation

Why is it useful ? Alation at the enterprise 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 the bank looking to ...
11 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Import metadata from InfoSphere Data Architect for data into IBM Knowledge Catalog

Currently, customers using InfoSphere Data Architect for data modeling cannot import their metadata into IKC, as ER/Studio, Erwin Data Modeler, and SAP PowerDesigner are the only supported modeling sources for IKC. Our customer needs to import met...
11 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta Qlik Scanner: Add Support for Sheet-Level Variables

Problem Statement Currently, Manta’s (42.14.8 ) Qlik Scanner primarily captures variables defined at the app/document (global) level. However, many Qlik implementations define and override variables at the Sheet level to localize expressions (e.g....
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support Perspectives in Unified Lineage

(filing this to track as a follow up from a conversation with Caroline F) Background: Perspectives in (legacy) Manta are used by our organization to achive the following: 1. We mark some table columns as "critical". Users usually want to view the ...
19 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta support for Vizlib objects in Qlik Sense Scanner

Problem Statement The Qlik Sense Scanner in Manta v42.14.8 currently does not support key Vizlib extensions and objects widely used in our Qlik Sense environment. Because these objects hold measures, dimensions, and variable expressions, Manta is ...
19 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta to support Qlik Cloud

Background: jmartins@ibm.com from IBM confirmed that Qlik Cloud is not supported. Bank has enable Qlik Cloud and migration will start from Mid-March 2026 to Qlik Cloud Version info: Qlik Sense November 2024 Patch 12 and Qlik Cloud version: Nov 202...
25 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Utilize System Tables to Extract Lineage for Databricks

Issue: Current Databricks extractor is using too many API calls to Databricks server, because it extracts lineage per each database column. As a result, the scans take too long possible failures along the way can cause Databricks API limit and ref...
26 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted