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Data Lineage by Manta

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Cobol Scanner should recover when * is found column 72 of COBOL code

At my organization, some COBOL programs in production import copybooks, and those copybooks may themselves include other copybooks. For example, the program flow might look like: olila12p.cob → DPBAUTW0.cpy → DPSINSCC.cpy However, the Manta COBOL ...
10 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

Manta to support dynamic calls in COBOL Scanner

Background Assume there are two COBOL files (parent.cbl and child.cbl) In parent.cbl we see below lines // variable DATESUB contains child.cbl 77 DATESUB PIC X(08) VALUE 'child '. // parent calls child using variable DATESUB CALL DATESUB USING DAT...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Not under consideration

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

Issue When Manta is used to scan the PowerExchange (PWX) file reader in Informatica PowerCenter, it successfully parses the PWX component. However, it does not display the actual source and target files based on the information available in the wo...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Under review

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 ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

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...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

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 ...
9 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 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
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 9 Not under consideration

Mapping between objects in physical data model (PDM) and its respective objects in a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) during Metadata Importing process

Most of the customers use to use data modeling tools (ERwin, PowerDesigner, E/R Studio ...) to design graphically their database structures and then, automatically, generate DDL to build their physical schemas into different RDBMS such as DB2, Ora...
almost 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Not under consideration

Support for multiple Export Resource Mapping in Open Manta Extensions Connection

In the current setup of Manta Open Manta Extensions connections, we observe a limitation with the export configuration. The OME connection provides only One field to export Custom ETL lineage to external tools like Alation. When multiple custom ET...
22 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Improve performance of Post processing scenario

(related support tickets TS019612628, TS019869998) As the size of the Manta repository grows, when we run an analysis workflow, the analysis may take 1-2 mins, but the post-processing and pruning scenarios take 40-45 mins, and in some cases even l...
24 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

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