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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Data Lineage by Manta
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 9, 2025

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Disallow Manta workflows with no connections

Current Behavior: If you create a workflow in Manta which mentions no workflow, it starts analysis and extract on ALL connections. This is very dangerous and can cause manta to crash. The situation becomes worse because after users realise what the system does, they will attempt to kill the workflow, which cause cause other data corruptions

The ask: Instead of letting workflows with no connection kick off all connections, either fail the workflow at runtime, or prevent the user from saving such a worklfow.

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  • Guest
    Dec 17, 2025

    Hi Jakub,

    this makes sense. I see your point that customers with smaller requirements. However, there are two points to consider:

    1. Providing these users two ways to create workflows (one with all connections and one with speciufic connections) makes training users harder.

    1. The specithe impact of running a workflow by mistake is extremely bad. It can cause Manta to crash, and loss of lineage data.

    The role based access control doesnt help, because people do want to be able to create a workflow and run then involving some connections. If there is method to disallow users from creating workflows with no connections, please do let me know.

    One alternative to consider is may be adding some kind of UI feedback in the workflow designer to show users that an empty worklfow will execute all N connections (indicate how many connections, because that will be noticed by users)

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    Jakub Moravec
    Dec 17, 2025

    Hi Devayon,

    this is a designed and desired behaviour, ensuring that customers with smaller requirements can easily create a workflow that would dynamically run all necessary steps that are needed to scan data lineage for their data sources. To avoid misuse, I would recommend leveraging role based access control - we have distinct roles for creation and execution of workflows to help you control who can create the workflows in Admin UI - https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/manta-data-lineage?topic=keycloak-user-management#process-manager.

    Best Regards,
    Jakub

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