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Data Lineage by Manta

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SAS: Do not scan/show files containing macros and other functions

Background: SAS code is organized in several files. For example driver.sas and driver2.sas files both call child.sas, which then calls grandchild.sas. When Manta is asked to scan the codebase, it will show the code in grandchild.sas 4 times, once ...
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

SAS: Support PROC RANK

Background: When Manta (42.13) comes across SAS code that uses PROC RANK, it ignores that block of code and does not draw lineage for that block. For example, when this code is used: proc rank data=T_NOT_98_&mth. TIES=DENSEout=T_NOT_98_1_&...
5 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Manta to support dynamic calls in COBOL Scanner

Why is it useful? Background first. Manta does not support dynamic calls in COBOL program. It simply errors out with "MISSING_CALL_PROGRAM_NAMES_CONFIG_ENTRY" and see below sample entry in log User message: Missing configuration of sub-program nam...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Manta COBOL scanner should support 88 level variables in COBOL scanner

Why is it useful? This makes lineage complete and accurate for COBOL programs using 88 level variables. Who wuld benefit from it? Manta users How should it work? Manta Flow Viewer repo should list all 88 variables and appear in lineage with indire...
12 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

Why is it useful? We have some legacy COBOL files that errors out with parsing error since it follows a different coding pattern for comments. The comments are included between REMARKS. and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION in COBOL program. Currently, Manta d...
24 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

File based ingestion using IBM Manta Data Lineage

Nordea cannot connect direct DB technologies for security reasons and require file based Data Lineage and metadata ingestion for following connectors - ORACLEMSSQLHiveMicrosoft SSISMicrosoft SSASPowerBIInformaticaJava
20 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Add "Exclude entities" to PostgreSQL connection

We are using Manta scanning one of our PostgreSQL database. One schema has more than 10000 tables and more than 90% of those tables are partitioned tables and we want Manta scanner excludes those partitioned tables. We noticed that Oracle connecti...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

For manta-alation integration- switch to the newer PUT /custom_field_values/async API

About the New Alation API Regarding the suggestion to switch to the newer PUT /custom_field_values/async API: This is indeed a different API, and switching to it would require a product-level enhancement on the Manta side. Our Engineering and Prod...
30 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

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...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

How to show data quality shown in column/lineage for special data quality measurement cases?

Your goal is to show the data quality on the lineage, right? We have a couple "special cases" we're not sure how to handle. First is related to "virtual tables" (as in IA terminology - I believe they are called something else in IKC). The Data rul...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Under review