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Data Lineage by Manta

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Support export of Microstrategy lineage from Manta Flow to Alatopm

Why is it useful ? Alation at Truist is the application for viewing all catalog and metadata across the enterprise. Lineage from Manta is exported to Alation to build the catalog. Who would benefit from it ? Any LOB at Truist looking to view linea...
about 6 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta support for SAP Business Objects (BO) 4.3 SP4

Background Currently Truist is on SAP BO 4.3 SP4. Per Manta documentation and IBM support, this is not supported. Why is it useful? This is need for National Review exam (tentative July EOM) to show case the data lineage with upstream and downstre...
13 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Use the same connection in different projects so when we run Discover/Get lineage using MANTA, MANTA will recognized the connection as the same connection.

Today if we use the same connection in different projects, when we run Discover/Get lineage using MANTA from each project, MANTA recognized it as different connections . this situation casus "confusion" for manta as it cannot determine which conne...
20 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Enhancement in Manta Orchestration API

Creating this request for the follow up the IBM case : TS018934986 We need below enhancement in Manta Orchestration API. please find below limitations that were noted while using fetch workflow executions API from Manta While using public API from...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

DB2 lineage repository shoud exclude intrinsic DB2XML schema

Why is it useful? DB2XML schema does not add any value to data lineage. It just adds confusion to users when it appears in repository view. Removing this DB2XML intrinsic schema from repository should help. Who would benefit from it? Manta users. ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta Hive scanner does not support kerberos mode with system ticket

why is it useful? Manta documentation claims kerberos auth with system ticket works. In reality it does not work. Who would benefit from it? Manta users How should it work? Either drop the system ticket from Hive scanner or make this work. Environ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta Hive scanner does not support cloudera Hive distribution

Why is it useful? Majority of the organization uses Enterprise product for datalake solution or cloud solutions. Apache distribution is least likely to be used by the organization due to internal security policies and security vulenarabilities ass...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Remove warning message related to password while cloning a git connection.

Manta version: 42.10.2 Problem When we clone sas connection that leverages git shows misleading warning message related to password even though the password is not required in the sas connection form. Steps to reproduce 1. Create git connection th...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Control-M Scanner Availability

We have a lineage use case which caters to most of the business functions since Control-M is a standard scheduling application at Dell. We need Manta to be capable of scanning Control-M application since all the jobs tied to various applications a...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Ability to have "User-set server name" for all technology sources

We currently have “User-set server name“ for MSSQL Connection Configuration. This helps in displaying an Application Name in a standardized way in Flow Viewer that is understandable for the Business users. Since the name reflects as soon as the An...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Submitted