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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...
about 2 hours 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...
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

AWS Glue Scanner for lineage

Many customer are based in AWS and wants to trace lineage from that platform including AWS Glue. Currently, we have Supervielle at Argentina that needs to include this scanner to complete their IKC SaaS functionality.
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Differentiate Runtime and Design-Time Lineage in Manta UI

Manta currently displays lineage generated from OpenLineage RunEvent (runtime) and JobEvent (design-time) in the same way with no visual distinction between them. This makes it difficult for users to tell whether lineage represents what actually r...
17 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support Column-Level Lineage in Manta to Alation Export for OpenLineage

Manta can ingest column-level lineage from OpenLineage, but this details is not preserved when exporting to Alation. As a result, only table-level lineage is visible in Alation and critical attribute-level relationships are lost. We propose enhanc...
17 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Request that Manta Automatic Data Lineage add support for OAuth 2.0 authentication (e.g., service-to-service OAuth tokens or service principal OAuth flow) for Databricks connections in addition to or in place of Personal Access Tokens (PATs).

Databricks strongly recommends using OAuth access tokens instead of PATs for security, token refresh, and credential management best practices. OAuth offers stronger security and better lifecycle management than long-lived PATs, which are consider...
14 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Please certify the product IBM Data Replication IMS for z/OS Remote Source to run on zCX and/or Red Hat Openshift

We’ve achieved excellent results with the Db2 for Remote Source product, as it has significantly reduced CPU usage on the mainframe—an area where traditional data replication has historically been one of the top resource consumers. With the introd...
4 months ago in Data Replication: IMS / VSAM  / Data Replication for IMS for z/OS 1 Planned for future release

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

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...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Access to information ingested with Manta for reporting purposes (e.g. "which of the 15k database columns in our scope have upstream lineage)

The information provided by Manta is not only for users utilizing the UI. We have a heavy reporting machinery checking if the content satisfies the data governance requirements for key assets. That means that we need to be able to retrieve lineage...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review