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Data Lineage by Manta

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Manta Microstrategy scanner to support SAML & OIDC authentication

Why is it useful ? Truist policy only allows SAML authentication in Production when establishing connections to Microstrategy from external applications. And there is also plan to support OIDC authentication in Microstrategy (tentatively Q2 2025)....
6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Request for Manta Data Export Format Alignment with Alation's Native Lineage Expectations

We need confirmation on how Manta exports lineage data to Alation to ensure it matches Alation's native lineage structure. Specifically, we are requesting details on: 1. Data Format: The exact format in which Manta sends data to Alation. 2. Lineag...
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 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...
13 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Enable Accurate and Comprehensive Lineage Visualization for complex SQL dependencies ( Support for Complete Lineage Including indirect Data source in the Lineage Graph )

We have observed that the lineage graph is not displaying correctly in certain scenarios. Specifically for some views that are created using SELECT * from multiple source table, the lineage graph is incomplete. For example, We have a view that is ...
13 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Microstrategy Reports and Dossier objects with prompts support

Customer is concerned about documents and reports with prompts, as according to our approach we can only get object metadata if we execute the documents, what would happen with such objects that contain prompts? MicroStrategy will only execute doc...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

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

MDI Lineage Job fails without proper Error message in logs

While Running the MDI lineage process, the job fails without providing a clear or detailed error message in the logs. it simply shows a status of failed with no context or explanation. We need the job logs to help with troubleshooting and root cau...
20 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Needs more information

Conceptual overlays in Manta should support ingestion via git or REST API

Why is it useful? This help technical data stewards (TDS) who wants to create perspective on top of existing data lineage in Manta to simply the lineage for BDS (Business data stewards or auditors/regulators). Currently, perspective can be created...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Submitted