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Data Lineage by Manta

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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
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta can support more datasource such as doris and clickhouse

We are a lot of customers that they are using dorisdb and clickhouse,They have a demand to organize their lineage. Such as Foxconn. We hope that in the future we can add clickhouse and Dorisdb to support datasource.
20 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

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 ...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted

Manta should allow user to include/exclude certain files from a list of files

We are utilizing Manta-SAS scaniner to scan .sas files from gitlab. To improve the efficiency and relevance of our scans, we aim to implement mechanisms that allow us to include or exclude specific .sas files based on certain criteria. This capabi...
20 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Integrate HashiCorp Vault secret management

We want to be able to pull secrets (usernames and passwords) from HashiCorp Vault paths to populate connection fields in the Manta. As we grow the number of connections we have so to does the maintenance upkeep when we need to update passwords, if...
10 days 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
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 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...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 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...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Enable Export of Hive Lineage from Manta to Alation

At Truist, we use Manta to scan and Analyze data elements across various technologies - such as Oracle, MSSQL, Db2 LUW and more - and then export that lineage to Alation for Governance and auditing. However, it appears Hive lineage is not currentl...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Submitted