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Created on Oct 3, 2024

IFPC workflow should show target when the source is executing dynamic commands in a session or vice versa

Truist uses Informatica Power Center to process critical data elements(CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, PWX,NRDB2,Salesforce, Filesystem Db2 ZOS, Netezza.

Data Governance Stewards are using Manta Platform to scan and analyze these applications in Bank. Further to identify the source of origin holding these CDEs and do impact analysis of the change one of these or all CDEs if any.


Once the Data lineage is available in Manta the next step is to validate the lineage in Manta and to verify the correctness of representation.

We Scanned few of the applications folders in Manta and majority are executing dynamic commands in the Session. We are aware that manta does not support dynamic commands.
However, we also saw that in case any Sessions of a IFPC workflow which is executing dynamic commands in the source, for the same sessions the targets are not visible and vice versa.

We analyzed few of the applications folders and majority of the Sessions of the workflow are executing dynamic commands either in source or target.

For an example one of the applications there is a workflow, and it is having a session, the source of the workflow is generated by executing a dynamic command in IFPC and Target is a file system. The target is not visible as the source was not generated using executing dynamic commands. As a result, the lineage generated us not accurate


Business impact:

 Any IFPC Lineage that is executing dynamic command in source and targets for a session will not have source and target.
 

Expected Outcome:

Manta should provide a way to represent the source or target when dynamic command is executed

Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool