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Data Lineage by Manta

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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

The name of the error log package, when downloaded from Log Viewer, should match the connection name for the respective workflows.

In the current Log Viewer tab of the Admin UI, error logs can be downloaded to verify whether Manta is correctly reading nodes and edges. However, when these logs are downloaded, they are named 'Package' followed by a reference number. I propose c...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Sorting Capability in Open Manta Designer

When users import an Entity from Manta Flow Viewer / Repository through Open Manta Designer (OMD), we have noticed that the Columns order as it is available in the Repository is being jumbled in OMD Left Pane of the Canvas. This is leading to a lo...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Search capability in Open Manta Designer

We have noticed that the users leveraging Open Manta Designer (OMD) are experiencing hard time in finding a Column_Name from an Entity with several attributes which is imported to Canvas. This is leading to a bad user experience when they intend t...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future consideration

Manta VDS Lineage Export to Alation

Manta currently supports VDS lineage export to Alation for Database resource type but any other hierarchy isn't working for us. We do not intend to have such restriction in place for VDS export of any resource type since it is limiting us from exp...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Needs more information

Manta microservices should restart automatically on failure.

Current State: 1. When a Manta user scans a large amount of SAS scripts or MS SQL tables, Manta Flow Server crashes due to out of memory (TS016760059). The cause of the memory issue is being addressed by the issue, but this product idea is this: a...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2

IBM Manta : The export of data lineage from Manta Flow Viewer UI for a revision to PNG format needs high resolution.

Problem: Post workflow execution, when you preview a data lineage for a revision in manta flow viewer ui and export the lineage in PNG format. Next, when we try to use the export PNG file for data lineage in a PowerPoint Slide. The image is not cl...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

OpenLineage connector is not displaying the value of column node attribute "Type" correctly

Node name and node type are essential information for data lineage, the final user and the business, it should be showing the correct data type (String, Int, Timestamp) as included in the OpenLineage event consumed by the Manta connector.
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Functionality already exists