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Data Lineage by Manta

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Lineage Support for IBM I-series - AS/400

We get requests for lineage for i-series - mainly db2 for i and we have to always say "Not Supported". Now since Manta is part of IBM it'd be great if we can find a way to do this...
about 3 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Microstrategy Reports and Dossier objects with prompts support

Customer is concerned about documents and reports with prompts, as according to our approach we can only get object metadata if we execute the documents, what would happen with such objects that contain prompts? MicroStrategy will only execute doc...
6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Enhancement request to parse CTL files as Teradata utility files

Hi Team, As per the framework at Dell, Teradata Utilities scripts are invoked from IFPC project specific directories and in the process of copying them manually to Manta server we came to know that only BTEQ and TPT are the supported formats. But ...
about 13 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

BigQuery scanner missing to bring Column data type value in to Manta Flow viewer

Data Type column is most validated item in data governance spectrum and missing that would be a big issue in our enterprise
2 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Show existing Microstrategy projects when creating a new import

Customer was used to MITI legacy solution in previous versions of CP4Data. Now, we migrated to CP4Data 5.x and testing new MANTA connectors. They found this usability issue and would appreciate to implement a combo or list of existing projects to ...
17 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Manta to natively support scanning of ADF (Azure Data Factory) jobs to provide Technical data lineage.

At this point Manta doesn't have native scanner for ADF, but instead requires source-target mapping using Open Manta Designer. Few our customers (WSIB, Bombardier) are looking for native scanner support in Manta
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Submitted

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
over 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Not under consideration

Domain Options in Collibra Export

Currently Collibra export model only supports configuring one domain within a single export configuration for exporting "Database" and "System" assets in technology asset domain. As we keep the system inventory centralized in a different place so ...
15 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support for Cognos Dashboards

Currently, the product supports lineage for Cognos models, reports, queries, and other objects, but not dashboards. However, dashboards are what users are interested in, and the lack of support in the product forces users to go outside it to conne...
17 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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...
20 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted