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Search results: Data Lineage by Manta

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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...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 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...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 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...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Not under consideration

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...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

Enable Accurate and Comprehensive Lineage Visualization for complex SQL dependencies ( Support for Complete Lineage Including indirect Data source in the Lineage Graph )

We have observed that the lineage graph is not displaying correctly in certain scenarios. Specifically for some views that are created using SELECT * from multiple source table, the lineage graph is incomplete. For example, We have a view that is ...
6 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Under review

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

Integrate use of Alation's delete API in the Manta to Alation connector to export lineage.

Recent discussion with IBM and the Alation vendor has clarified what lineage is actually shown in Alation for items that we previously thought would always be showing Manta's current lineage. Relative to this topic, Alation does not have an intern...
5 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Needs more information

OpenLineage Export to Alation

We need ability to export lineage integrated onto Manta leveraging OpenLineage connector to be exported to Alation. It could be accomplished in either of the two ways: Integrate OpenLineage Export to Alation Catalog for the same source Export Open...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Delivered

OpenLineage connector is not displaying the value of column node attribute "Type" correctly

Node name and node type are essential information for data lineage, the final user and the business, it should be showing the correct data type (String, Int, Timestamp) as included in the OpenLineage event consumed by the Manta connector.
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Functionality already exists

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