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Data Lineage by Manta

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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...
about 7 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta should include all core types of SAP HANA views for lineage

Why it is useful? Views are an integral part and widely used in SAP HANA applications. They comprise advanced logic describing data and hierarchies, joins, aggregations and transformations that are vital for deriving lineage. The core types of SAP...
3 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...
3 days 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...
6 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 ...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Remove Packages and Procedures objects from Manta EDC export

The current Manta export used to populate asset in EDC is a hierarchical structure which in a typical example includes database, schema, generic Packages asset, package generic Procedures asset, procedure and statement. Two layers in this hierarch...
24 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Provide lineage in EDC from Manta assets directly

Currently you can view lineage imported from Manta in EDC by searching for a table or column, going to the Lineage and Impact tab for the asset and there you can see links to source and target tables (if using detailed lineage you may use transfor...
24 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 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

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

Data Lineage Trustworthiness -- Disclose the source of lineage in the MANTA Query API

Preamble:Interactive Brokers has an imediate need for this but there may be other customers, in my view in mature or advanced levels of Manta usage, that might benefit from this. Interactive Brokers is currently using Manta to produce data-lineage...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted