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Data Lineage by Manta

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Conceptual overlays in Manta should support ingestion via git or REST API

Why is it useful? This help technical data stewards (TDS) who wants to create perspective on top of existing data lineage in Manta to simply the lineage for BDS (Business data stewards or auditors/regulators). Currently, perspective can be created...
about 17 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Add screenTip to Cognos scanner

screenTip is a property of data elements in Cognos Framework Models that allows the developer of the model to explain that data element's meaning and/or how it should be used. If this property is captured in the scans, it can be made available in ...
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

[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...
1 day 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...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 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 ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

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

How to extract complete Lineage for Connection with API

We are unable to extract complete Lineage for connections and this is impacting the Lineage related jobs and ICP4D activities. Need API to extract complete Lineage for connection.
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 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
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Submitted

Include Synonyms in Flow Viewer

Currently synonyms are not available in Flow Viewer as part of metadata scanning, can you please make the necessary changes such that synonyms are visible in Flow Viewer just like Tables, Views etc.
11 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 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