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Data Lineage by Manta

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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...
1 day 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...
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Submitted

Lineage export to Alation for Manta OOTB scanners

We have noticed that Manta doesn't have an OOTB capability in the product to export lineage to Alation Catalogue for the auto-scan technologies. Here are the key ones for which lineage from Manta needs to be allowed to integrate with Alation OOTB....
1 day ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Conceptual overlays in Manta should support ingestion via git or REST API

Why is it useful? This help technical data stewards (TDS) who wants to create perspective on top of existing data lineage in Manta to simply the lineage for BDS (Business data stewards or auditors/regulators). Currently, perspective can be created...
8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Microstrategy Reports and Dossier objects with prompts support

Customer is concerned about documents and reports with prompts, as according to our approach we can only get object metadata if we execute the documents, what would happen with such objects that contain prompts? MicroStrategy will only execute doc...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Show existing Microstrategy projects when creating a new import

Customer was used to MITI legacy solution in previous versions of CP4Data. Now, we migrated to CP4Data 5.x and testing new MANTA connectors. They found this usability issue and would appreciate to implement a combo or list of existing projects to ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Add screenTip to Cognos scanner

screenTip is a property of data elements in Cognos Framework Models that allows the developer of the model to explain that data element's meaning and/or how it should be used. If this property is captured in the scans, it can be made available in ...
8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

[Manta Admin UI] Hive scanner connection validation for kerberos authentication fails with errors

why is it useful? Every scanners we have worked so far like IFPC, DB2, MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle, Netezza, Microstrategy has validate button in Manta Admin UI. It gives a confidence to users that all pre-requisites are met w.r.t connectivity from Manta...
8 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Lineage Support for IBM I-series - AS/400

We get requests for lineage for i-series - mainly db2 for i and we have to always say "Not Supported". Now since Manta is part of IBM it'd be great if we can find a way to do this...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta to natively support scanning of ADF (Azure Data Factory) jobs to provide Technical data lineage.

At this point Manta doesn't have native scanner for ADF, but instead requires source-target mapping using Open Manta Designer. Few our customers (WSIB, Bombardier) are looking for native scanner support in Manta
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Submitted