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Support for additional Flow Models using OpenManta Extensions in Informatica EDC exports

Informatica EDC exports for OpenManta Extension connections only supports Custom ETL and Custom Reports flow models. This becomes an issue if the customer is modelling file-based integrations on the customer's internal systems using OpenManta Exte...
10 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support for REST Batch Query services in Manta's Query API

This feature request suggests the enhancement of Manta's current Query API with three additional REST services: POST /public/v1/rev/{rev}/nodes/batch/search-by-name -- Batch search the Manta repository by a list of node names POST /public/v1/rev/{...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path for RDBMS semi-structured(JSON, BLOB & CLOB) Columns

Problem : Currently Manta Data Dictionary, Hierarchy, Path doesn't capture the RDBMS data dictionary beyond column level. There are multiple system which save the JSON/BLOB/CLOB into RDBMS columns. Need to have a way to represent the JSON/BLOB/CLO...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Some Manta workflow finish status "FINISHED SUCCESSFULLY" in Admin UI and REST API, yet the logs indicate errors. The status should reflect data quality issue

Why is it useful? Current Manta 42.4.4+ APIs Does not meet API standards and conventions. If this is fixed, Manta API consumers would benefit who are primarly responsible for automating data lineage use cases. In the process, it would improve code...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 5 Needs more information

Mapping Leaf Level Node to a Higher Level Node

We have a use case wherein we intend to link a Leaf Level Node in Manta to a Higher Level Node considering the functionality of process flow among the applications from different technologies. Manta may already have an understanding of IFPC hierar...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Exporting Lineage

We need that the exported file will contain resource key and will contain column lineage and in the same structure of the imported csv file. All this are not supported in current export lineage csv file.After changing the table structure we expect...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Needs more information

Data lineage for a Manta IFPC scanner should provide a visual representation for mappings when viewing lineage from Manta Flow Viewer GUI

Why is it useful? Data lineage generated from IFPC scanner is expected to align with Informatica data flow represented by a mapping used in a informatica workflow. Logically thinking Manta data lineage would be validated by a informatica domain ex...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Needs more information

Support lineage for Command Tasks in IFPC

Background Informatica PowerCenter provides a Command task that allow users to leverage bash scripts in Linux system or DOS/batch scripts in Window systems. For example, you can specify shell commands in the Command task to delete reject files, co...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Allow Kerberos authentication with connectors.

We have been informed the only long term solution for a single ID within our network to get access to all our PostgreSQL databases is to make use of Kerberos. We have security constraints in place that prevent company wide access within our networ...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Demarcate the kind of filesystem (shared vs local vs HDFS vs S3) and the kind of file (CSV, etc) when showing the lineage.

At my organization, the Informatica Power Center is used to process critical data elements (CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, 2, Salesforce, Filesystem Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Governance S...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review