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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 ...
17 days ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 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 ...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

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 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Future 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...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Planned for future release

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

SAS: Support PROC RANK

Background: When Manta (42.13) comes across SAS code that uses PROC RANK, it ignores that block of code and does not draw lineage for that block. For example, when this code is used: proc rank data=T_NOT_98_&mth. TIES=DENSEout=T_NOT_98_1_&...
about 1 month ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Planned for future release
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Manta COBOL scanner support to ignore the comments between REMARKS and ENVIRONMENT DIVISION

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Background 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 progam. Currently, Manta does not ...
about 2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration

Manta SAP HANA scanner to support analyzing ABAP scripts for comprehensive lineage

Why it is useful? The applications running on SAP HANA systems at Truist utilizes scripts in ABAP for business logic and transformations. ABAP (Advanced Business Application Programming) is the programming language used to build and extend applica...
4 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 1 Not under consideration

Support movement of files in Git

Followup from TS019921735, TS016610424 and HD-6863. Background: Our users use Manta to scan SAS code or IFPC files stored in various Git repositories to build lineage. This is very convenient because we can block access to users to the backend (be...
2 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 2 Future consideration

Add Support for Hash and Hash iterator Objects in SAS Code Scanner

CWB leverages Hash and Hash Iterator Objects in our SAS code. Manta currently fails to parse these which has resulted in gaps in lineage, preventing end to end lineage . The details of the needed HASH support can be found here: https://documentati...
11 months ago in Data Lineage by Manta 0 Future consideration