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Data Lineage by Manta

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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...
3 months 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...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Needs more information

Support Alation Authentication methods

Current State: Alation currenltly supports two ways of authenticating ( https://developer.alation.com/dev/docs/authentication-into-alation-apis ) 1. Register your application (Manta) as an OAuth 2 client 2. Use a refresh token Manta currently supp...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 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...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2

Manta support for Informatica Cloud (IICS/IDMC)

AbbVie has many workflows using Informatica Cloud not Informatica Power Center. In order to see lineage across systems we need to be able to scan the lineage from Informatica Cloud as well. Informatica Power Center (IFPC) Manta connector is workin...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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.
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Customization of Export .csv report from Manta.

We have a requirement in our organization to customize the export of Manta lineage data. Specifically, we need to tailor the reports to reflect the database, schema, table and view levels. This customization should align with the templates provide...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

CSV file support

One of our largest design patterns is to export data from a source system into a flat file (CSV, JSON, etc.). We use these flat files to populate our data warehouse ecosystem. Manta does not support CSV files, and this is a showstopper for us. Can...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Functionality already exists

Greater filtering for files

We are a SAS shop, and we are finding the connection mechanism cumbersome. We have numerous file folders where SAS scripts are stored but we would like to filter out some of the scripts or sub folders. The current connection type does not allow fo...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted