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Created on Jan 12, 2026

DataStage - More detail in Transformation Stages

Currently, at the time of writing, Manta is not able to provide further lineage detail beyond a Direct Edge for Transformation Stages. The documentation states:

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/manta-data-lineage?topic=datastage-integration-requirements#processing-stage

"DS Routines and functions in expressions are resolved as direct flows"

This type of situation is normally handled with custom solutions using either OpenManta or OpenLineage, but the customer, NYC Tax, is asking for a OOTB solution.

The customer uses JSON Transformation Stages to parse CLOB columns containing JSON documents and is only seeing a direct edge from the CLOB column to another node as per the documentation.

The idea here is to provide support for a series of Transformation Stages, a list of Transformation Stages, doesn't have to be all supported DataStage transformation stages, for which we are able to provide more lineage detail.

Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool