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For manta-alation integration- switch to the newer PUT /custom_field_values/async API

About the New Alation API Regarding the suggestion to switch to the newer PUT /custom_field_values/async API: This is indeed a different API, and switching to it would require a product-level enhancement on the Manta side. Our Engineering and Prod...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

Manta COBOL scanner should support DECLARE table statement

Background Post upgrade to Manta 42.13.x from 42.12.x, we saw few parsing errors "ANTLR_PARSING_FAILURE". Failed to parse input at position 2,13 - the statement will be ignored. Parser error: no viable alternative at input '(' Parse trace: non_res...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Planned for future release

Be able to selectively export individual records out of Catalogs using the Java API

When you have multiple IBM Product Master Environments, some for development and some for production, you may want to promote changes from development to production. However, if some records in a catalog are still in development when other records...
7 months ago in Product Master 3 Functionality already exists

cDb2 Database names shown in Manta Flow Server lineage should match Database names used in underlying Connection String

We saw an issue while scanning cDb2 Databases in Manta, it shows the databases names that comes from the database engine. In other words, the values that is shown while running the command: 'VALUES (CURRENT SERVER);` in the databases is shown and ...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Support movement of files in Git

Followup from TS019921735, TS016610424 and HD-6863. Background: Our users use Manta to scan SAS code or IFPC files stored in various Git repositories to build lineage. This is very convenient because we can block access to users to the backend (be...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

FTS to support result set more than 10000 entires

Issue description: We have configured Free text search in Staging Environment and if we query using Free text search and query is expected to return more than 10000 entries but still FTS search returns 10000 entries. We would like to understand if...
4 months ago in Product Master 0 Planned for future release

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition

Need Looker connector for Manta IKC data source definition for Lineage scanner
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

[Manta Admin UI] Hive scanner connection validation for kerberos authentication fails with errors

why is it useful? Every scanners we have worked so far like IFPC, DB2, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Netezza, Microstrategy has validate button in Manta Admin UI. It gives a confidence to users that all pre-requisites are met w.r.t connectivity from Manta...
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

Segregating visibility of lookup tables

Today is not possible to give different visibility (based on different roles or ACG) on Lookup Tables. For example, we would like to give some roles the visibility of the whole list of lookup tables, and others only a subset of them. This is usefu...
about 1 year ago in Product Master 0 Future consideration

Filter out old entries from log viewer when the workflow executions are missing in process manager in Manta

Background: The process manager in Manta sometimes goes through data corruption and reverts back to an earlier state. Let's illustrate with an example: Let's say I have a manta instnaces where I have execeuted a few workflows. I have workflow exec...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration