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OpenLineage Export to Alation

Thia is in continuation to an earlier Idea, https://ibm-data-and-ai.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/DATALIN-I-67, wherein the OpenLineage export is working only when it is connected to an auto-scanned source but the respective Alation data source catalog does...
2 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 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...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Under review

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

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 ...
28 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Unhide Synonyms from Lineage

A common pattern in data warehouses, especially with DB2, is to use Synonyms (DB2 calls those Aliases) to allow tables to be updated without impacting running queries and data integration processes or causing wrong/partial data to be displayed. Un...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

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...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release

Manta SAP HANA scanner to support calculation view

Why it is useful? Calculation view are widely used in SAP HANA applications. There are a few key tables that get loaded via stored procedures and those stored procedures loads data from several calculation views and/or nested calculation view. Wit...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 8 Delivered

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

Import PoweDesigner VIEWS in .pdm files

For Teradata Physical Data Models in PowerDesigner, the VIEWS are very important. When importing these Physical Data Models into IBM Knowledge Catalog, the VIEWS are not imported. All the data modeling tools that we know (PowerDesigner, ER Studio,...
almost 2 years ago in Data Lineage by Manta 3 Not under consideration