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Data Lineage by Manta

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Manta COBOL scanner should support SET verb with use of system function like CURRENT_DATE

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
about 13 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

COBOL scanner should support COMPUTE verb with functions

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
about 13 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta COBOL scanner should support termination statement.

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
about 13 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta COBOL lineage doesn't show link between EXEC SQL blocks e.g. OPEN FETCH CLOSE EXEC SQL blocks

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
about 13 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta COBOL scanner should support native JCL utility exec IKJEFT1B

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
about 13 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta COBOL scanner does not support EXEC CICS statement.

Background: Bank has requirement to build data lineage for legacy applications that are implemented in COBOL. Target date to enable the COBOL scanner in Manta production is end of July. Why it is critical? Several applications at Truist that inter...
about 13 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Lineage for Dynamic views

In IBM Knowledge Catalog, there is a special asset type called "dynamic view" that allows you to create an asset based on an SQL query. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-paks/cp-data/5.2.x?topic=project-adding-dynamic-view-data-from-connection A ...
6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Scan openManta extension csv files from Git

There are several cases when external programs want to send lineage to Manta because Manta does not support a particular feature. For example, Manta doesnt support PROC EXPORT in sas, that connects a file to a sas program. Users can write external...
5 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...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Enable Manta to extract lineage from sas scripts that use PROC IMPORT and PROC EXPORT statments

This will help Manta show a more complete lineage. If this is not psooible, and lineage must be set up manually, provide a tutorial show how to augment automated lineage with manual references to proc import and export
19 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted