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Data Lineage by Manta

Use Query Logs for Lineage and Usage Analysis

Lineage collection today depends on explicitly defined data flows and relationships between data assets. This process leaves holes in the data lineage flows. However, if IKC could start collecting, analyzing and parsing query logs during Metadata ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

Support transformations for the OpenLineage Column Level Lineage dataset facet.

Why it is useful? Transformations are an integral part in any data flow representation. They comprise logic describing data, functions and process information that are vital for deriving lineage on an attribute. A field of an output in Column Leve...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

Manta SAP BO Scanner should support SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 Version 14.4.0.5411.4

Background: Manta SAP BO Scanner currently does not support scanning of SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 2025 (Version: 14.4.0.5411.4) and fails to scan.Our organization migrated from SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.3 Support Pack 4 Patch 8 (Vers...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

Cobol Scanner should recover when *, Identification Area is present in column 72 of COBOL code

At my organization, some COBOL programs in production import copybooks, and those copybooks may themselves include other copybooks. For example, the program flow might look like: olila12p.cob → DPBAUTW0.cpy → DPSINSCC.cpy However, the Manta COBOL ...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

Support lineage deletion in Open Manta Designer

Currently, Open Manta Designer does not provide functionality to delete lineage that was generated using the native Manta scanner. This creates challenges in managing and maintaining lineage data, especially when test or obsolete lineage needs to ...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

Provide a utility to find any orphaned nodes in the graph database

Background: Sometimes, due to failed upgrades, workflows interrupted while running, Manta crashes, etc - there will be orphaned nodes in Manta. These cause problems when we try to export lineage from Manta to other tools such as Alation. The follo...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

SAS: Do not scan/show files containing macros and other functions

Background: SAS code is organized in several files. For example driver.sas and driver2.sas files both call child.sas, which then calls grandchild.sas. When Manta is asked to scan the codebase, it will show the code in grandchild.sas 4 times, once ...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

Enable Manta APIs to retrieve Nodes Lineage at the same Level and Depth as Flow Viewer

We have noticed that the Manta APIs do not have a capability to retrieve the nodes lineage at the same level and depth as we see it in the Flow Viewer. This is adversely impacting the teams that intend to fetch lineage information programmatically...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

Analyze Hive transformation logic and export to Alation

Currently (Manta 42.13) when Manta is used to export Hive lineage to Alation, the dataflow objects created by Manta do not contain any description of the Hive transformation. It seems because Analysis phase is not done. Also when this is exported ...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

File based ingestion using IBM Manta Data Lineage

Nordea cannot connect direct DB technologies for security reasons and require file based Data Lineage and metadata ingestion for following connectors - ORACLEMSSQLHiveMicrosoft SSISMicrosoft SSASPowerBIInformaticaJava
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta Future consideration

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