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Search results: 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 ...
21 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Under review

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...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted

Support running multiple workflows at the same time

Current State: Manta currently does not allow running multiple workflows at the same time. However only writing and reading from Neo4j cannot happen at the same time. Therefore a lot of the steps that Manta can run in parallel, such as extraction,...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

SAS: Do not scan/show files containing macros and other functions

Background: SAS code is organized in several files. For example driver.sas and driver2.sas files both call child.sas, which then calls grandchild.sas. When Manta is asked to scan the codebase, it will show the code in grandchild.sas 4 times, once ...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Add "Exclude entities" to PostgreSQL connection

We are using Manta scanning one of our PostgreSQL database. One schema has more than 10000 tables and more than 90% of those tables are partitioned tables and we want Manta scanner excludes those partitioned tables. We noticed that Oracle connecti...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Filter out old entries from log viewer when the workflow executions are missing in process manager in Manta

Background: The process manager in Manta sometimes goes through data corruption and reverts back to an earlier state. Let's illustrate with an example: Let's say I have a manta instnaces where I have execeuted a few workflows. I have workflow exec...
3 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

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...
8 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 8 Functionality already exists

Lineage from SAS-grid should be able to export into Alation with correct representation

Background: SAS files are being scanned from SAS-grid (local file system or git location) and Manta is able to analyse those files to create required lineages in Manta. Now, when we try to export the lineage to Alation we are not able to get any. ...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 8 Delivered

Export dataflows involving File System into Alation

At my organization, the Informatica Power Center is used to process critical data elements(CDE) from different Applications relying on several technologies like Oracle, MSSQL, DB2 LUW, PWX,NRDB2,Salesforce, FileSystem,PWX Db2 ZOS, Netezza. Data Go...
about 1 year ago in Data Lineage by Manta 4 Delivered

Enhancement in Manta Orchestration API

Creating this request for the follow up the IBM case : TS018934986 We need below enhancement in Manta Orchestration API. please find below limitations that were noted while using fetch workflow executions API from Manta While using public API from...
7 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Submitted