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Data Lineage by Manta

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Analyze Hive transformation logic and export to Alation

Currently (Manta 42.13) when Manta is used to export Hive lineage to Alation, the dataflow objects created by Manta do not contain any description of the Hive transformation. It seems because Analysis phase is not done. implementing this will brin...
about 2 hours ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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...
4 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta COBOL scanner should support Assembly code.

Manta COBOL scanner fails with parsing error when it encounteres assembly code. There are two ways to resolve this. 1. Refactor the assembly code to COBOL program (Manual approach) 2. Add support for assembly code in Manta COBOL scanner Option #2 ...
6 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Improve Manta's PowerExchange file reader scanner's lineage by showing the source and target file system

Issue When Truist scans the PowerExchange (PWX) file reader in Informatica PowerCenter, Manta successfully parses the PWX component. However, it does not display the actual source and target files based on the information available in the workflow...
20 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta COBOL lineage should show paragraph name instead of MOVE statements

Background During lineage validation, we found that for technical users MOVE statements do not add any value to data lineage. Instead, PARA names are more meaningful than having the MOVE statement in the data lineage. It helps them to quickly rela...
15 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Improve Error Logging & Line Number Traceability in SAS connector Parsing

Problem Statement Currently, when parsing errors occur in the Manta SAS Connector, the logs do not provide sufficient details about the root cause. For Example The error message often lacks the specific SAS code line number and the file name whe...
18 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

ability to include same application as up and downstream on OMD

Today Open Manta Designer doesn't allow to draw lineage in both sides to a given application. It needs to be only up OR downstream to a main app. However, we have a lot of cases where an app is at same time, up and downstream to a main app. We ope...
27 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Lineage export to Alation for SAS tables should allow path to be used to identify tables instead of library name

Background: When column lineage is sent to Alation, it must have a alation_source_id, schema name, table name and column name. In case of SAS Grid tables, , the convention assumed is <alation_source_id>.<SAS Library ref name>.<Table...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 6

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...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Manta COBOL scanner should support DECLARE table statement

Background Post upgrade to Manta 42.13.x from 42.12.x, we saw few parsing errors "ANTLR_PARSING_FAILURE". Failed to parse input at position 2,13 - the statement will be ignored. Parser error: no viable alternative at input '(' Parse trace: non_res...
11 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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