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Support of indirect edge for conditional statement in Manta COBOL lineage

Background: During Lineage validation, we have identified a gap in Manta lineage for COBOL. The lineage is missing edges for IF conditions (Indirect Edges). Users like technical stewards are unable to view the edges. This makes the lineage inaccur...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Not under consideration

Kerberos authentication support for Impala in Data Refinery

Client's main data source is Kerberised Impala cluster. It is very important to have access to this data source from CPD. For now it looks like they can't use Watson (Data Refinery) and SPSS for their project.
about 2 months ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Submitted

Add "Exclude entities" to PostgreSQL connection

We are using Manta scanning one of our PostgreSQL database. One schema has more than 10000 tables and more than 90% of those tables are partitioned tables and we want Manta scanner excludes those partitioned tables. We noticed that Oracle connecti...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

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...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

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 ...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

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...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Support for multiple Export Resource Mapping in Open Manta Extensions Connection

In the current setup of Manta Open Manta Extensions connections, we observe a limitation with the export configuration. The OME connection provides only One field to export Custom ETL lineage to external tools like Alation. When multiple custom ET...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Improve performance of Post processing scenario

(related support tickets TS019612628, TS019869998) As the size of the Manta repository grows, when we run an analysis workflow, the analysis may take 1-2 mins, but the post-processing and pruning scenarios take 40-45 mins, and in some cases even l...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support export of Microstrategy lineage from Manta Flow to Alation

Why is it useful ? Alation at Truist 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 Truist looking to view linea...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

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 ...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration