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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Data Lineage by Manta
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 20, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Support of indirect edge for conditional statement in Manta COBOL lineage

Background:

During Lineage validation, we have identified a gap in Manta lineage for COBOL. The lineage is missing edges for IF conditions (Indirect Edges). Users like technical stewards are unable to view the edges. This makes the lineage inaccurate.

Requirement

Manta COBOL scanner should be able to provide visuals for IF CONDITIONAL statement (Indirect Edges)

Why it is important?

  1. Makes the lineage validation easier for technical stewards.

  2. With this support it makes the lineage accurate and complete.

Needed By Quarter
  • Admin
    Yurii Plakhtii
    Sep 30, 2025

    COBOL, unlike SQL queries, relies heavily on the use of "IF" statements, which can be prevalent throughout the script. This frequent use of conditional statements can create many indirect edges in the data lineage, which may degrade the performance of lineage visualization. Furthermore, it could negatively impact lineage consumption by the end user.

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  • Guest
    Sep 3, 2025

    Truist's has identified 28 Mainframe applications that has COBOL code in a git repository.

    To assess the COBOL scanner capability in Manta on pilot basis we picked two applications like CIF and SHAW. CIF application COBOL code is scanned in Manta.

    During Lineage validation, we found this gap. Discussed with @Michal Bartos and he suggested to raise an IDEA for this.

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