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Enhancements to the Tableau Collector for project filtering and additional logging

Postgress additional triple for Table to Database linking

Includes some internal dependency updates.

Enhancements to the DBT collector to validate the input profile.yaml file

Enhancement to the tableau collector to add a retry if a graphql query fails

Enhancement to the collectors to add a check at the beginning of a collector run to ensure the output directory exists (if the o/-output option is used), which will log an error and stop if the output directory doesn't exist.

Enhancement to the Tableau collector to reauthenticate if the Tableau API reports failed authorization during the collector run.

Released the new Fivetran collector (catalog-fivetran)

Added the parameter --include-information-schema for Snowflake and SQL Server collectors; we no longer catalog the information schema in these collectors when --all-schemas is specified, unless the user also specifies --include-information-schema.

Improved handling of manifest json structures with some nulls in the dbt collector.

Added reporting on user access issues during parsing/resolution for Snowflake collector.

Updated tableau collector to print a clear log message when authentication expires during a collector run

Update tableau collector to allow optimized serialization of API requests under JDK 17

Significant updates to the Power BI collector. As of this release PowerBI Collector outputs different classes than the version before it. The collector now emits information about where it is sourcing it's data.

Internal developer and testing improvements

The MANTA collector is now more specific about the concepts that it emits about Informatica PC.

The information schema collector now explicitly supports Oracle.

We have added enhancements to the dbt collector to harvest DBT snapshots and sources.

For collectors that take API endpoint URLs, the data.world Collector will add a trailing slash to the URL if needed and not specified by the user

New command-line option --warehouse available for the Snowflake collector that allows the user to specify which warehouse to use to connect to snowflake.

Added a the data.world Collector collector for dbt - legacy collector still available.

Fixed an issue with auto-uploaded log files, in which not all log messages were being written out.

Looker collector now emits resources for Looker Views and relates the Looker Dimensions and Looker Measures that are configured within those Views.

Improved handling of unexpected database types encountered when cataloging Tableau.

Further improvements in handling of SQL ORDER BY, GROUP BY, WHERE, and HAVING clauses when harvesting intra-database lineage from database views.

Corrected coining of IRIs in catalog graphs emitted by the Tableau collector.

Improved logging in the Tableau collector to detect unknown linked database types.

Improved harvesting of lineage between database views and referenced columns, including support for columns in SQL ORDER BY, HAVING, GROUP BY, and WHERE clauses, and parsing of a wider range of column expressions.

With this release, the data.world Collector now requires Java 17. If you run the collector from within Docker this change will not affect you. If you run the data.world Collector from a .jar file, you will need to upgrade your JRE to 17 to run DWCv2.80 and greater.

The Manta collector can now accept OAuth tokens for MANTA authentication (for harvesting metadata from manta version R35 and above)

We have released a new collector powerbigov that only allows tenantid for auth and not user/password and connects to the government powerbi api urls.

Added some small Tableau collector enhancements.

New PowerBiGov collector with specific endpoints for .gov customers. This collector does not accept a username or password.

For PowerBI, a new way to authenticate is available. A user can now enter a tenant ID with a client id and a client secret to authenticate, in addition to using a username and password.

For both PowerBi and PowerBiGov, when using the tenantid, secret and client id authentication method, this collector no longer emits information about PowerBI Apps.

Fixes an issue with the Snowflake collector that prevented the bundled jdbc driver from being found. Any users working with the data.world Collector 2.76 should update.

The Snowflake collector harvests some intra-database lineage information from database views.

Improved the host mapping in the Manta collector.

the Manta collector now emits resources for file sources and targets and their directory structure. It also emits sources and targets as files.

The Tableau collector now emits “column-level lineage”:

Improved styling of the data.world Collector command-line errors

Updated command-line options for Datakin and Marquez.

Permalinks to Looker explores included via externalUrl

Improvements to datakin/marquez collectors

Tableau collector now emits resources for Tableau Projects, allowing us to establish full relationships between projects and the workbooks and views that they contain

Monte Carlo data collector now emits data quality information using enhanced dwec ontology concepts

Looker collector now emits descriptions for measures and dimensions

MANTA collector now emits Snowflake resources found in MANTA scans

[BUGFIX] Invalid prefix when using --base option

Update the data.world Collector transform to add catalog events to specific collectors

Added a Snowflake Sensitive Data Discovery collector

Sync CLI options between collector types

Validation of CLI options for the data.world Collector

Improvements to the the data.world Collector CLI

Update the MonteCarlo Collector to use the new Data Quality Ontology

Bug fix for Marquez collector

Bug fix for Manta collector

Preview images for Tableau assets are now harvested much more efficiently, and the resulting image data in the catalog graph are much smaller, reducing catalog harvest run time and enabling image objects to remain within platform constraints during ingest.

Fix for unexpected column type errors in BigQuery collector

Created new collectors for Marquez and Datakin

Added schema information to the Tableau collector outputs

The Tableau collector now accepts Tableau “Personal Access Tokens” for authentication, via new cli options --tableau-pat-name and --tableau-pat-secret.

Fixed an issue with mis-identification of views as tables in BigQuery.

Fixed an issue with server name identification in Manta.

With this release the Athena collector is no longer a JDBC collector--we harvest metadata by accessing the Athena API directly, rather than going through a JDBC driver. This means that it is no longer necessary to provide a JDBC driver when running the collector.

This release adds a new option for the MANTA collector, --manta-max-parallel-scenarios. Specifying this option and passing an integer value will configure the MANTA API to export the specified number of scenarios in the MANTA graph in parallel. The default value is 4; adjusting this up or down can improve performance.

The Athena JDBC driver is no longer bundled with the data.world Collector as we have discovered that the Athena driver itself has a dependency on a vulnerable version of log4j. Customers that use the the data.world Collector Athena collector will now need to supply their own driver and put it in the jdbc driver directory (as is done with other collectors for which we don’t distribute a driver).

The Oracle collector now supports connecting to the database via SID (instance ID) or Service Name. Service Name is the default. If a connection via SID is desired, pass the SID as the value of the -d/ --database option and add the --oracle-sid-mode option (flag).

The information schema collector has been modified so that the files table_constraints.csv and constraint_column_usage are now optional, not required.

Updated the BigQuery collector to support current Google Cloud API enhancements.

Added a new Information Schema Collector. This collector runs via the {{catalog-information-schema}} command and is notably cataloging four CSV files that are provided to the collector via a {{--csv-file-directory}} parameter rather than connecting to a database. This collector is an option for customers with tricky DB setups that do not allow them to authenticate or establish connections to their DB via our normal the data.world Collector collectors.

Verified the Manta collector works with MANTA R34.

Released the config file command.

Modified the Tableau collector to remove schema and database names from table names.

Updated the BigQuery collector to support cataloging all datasets in a project at once by default, and to be able to use cli options to select specific datasets in a project as well. With this last change, the  --dataset param is no longer required. The help text has been updated with new messaging to reflect these changes.

Added a new collector for Hive (as an alternative to catalog-hive) that uses only the Hive metastore--it does not connect to the Hive server directly. 

The PowerBI collector now harvests workspaces and identifies other assets as being in workspaces

the data.world Collector now emits “catalog events” into the catalog graph. These capture details about the cataloging process itself, including selected configuration options with which the Collector was run, and summary statistics about the catalog. The ingest process will soon extract this information from catalogs at ingest time and send them to segment for downstream analysis.

Fixed an issue in the Tableau collector in which Custom SQL Table objects without an associated database were not handled correctly.

Added new cli options to salesforce collector so that it can handle sandbox environments and custom login domains customers might have.

This release updates the BigQuery collector to handle fields in BigQuery tables for which the BigQuery API returns null type.

Enhancements to the MANTA collector to harvest additional lineage information from MANTA scans (lineage from Informatica PowerCenter in particular)

Tableau collector enhancement to provide a better warning to the user when an obsolete version of the Tableau API is specified

Fixed an issue with the handling of certain fields and database information when the Tableau collector was run with a non-admin credential.

Fixedan issue with the Tableau collector issue to handle views/workbooks that exist outside of a project.

Fixed an issue with the Tableau collector to handle workbooks that exist outside of projects.

Added a collector for Salesforce (catalog-slesforce)

Fixed a IRI mismatch issue for Tableau Collector when running on Tableau instances with a Snowflake datasource.

Made internal improvements to the tableau collector to enable more efficient querying of the Tableau metadata api.

Fixed an issue in the manta collector in which certain missing data in the MANTA lineage graph caused an exception

Fixed an issue in the Reltio collector that occured when a Reltio configuration was missing certain objects.

Added a collector for Databricks (catalog-databricks)

Fixed an issue with creation of resource IRIs by certain collectors when the user chooses version 1 minting

Updated BigQuery collector to enable integration with data.world platform / connection manager

Fixed an issue with the MANTA collector in which certain large MANTA scans caused a numeric overflow during json de-serialization

Updated Reltio collector to include information about survivorship groups in the emitted catalog

This release fixed an issue with JDBC drivers not being loaded by the Athena collector.

Added a collector for Reltio configurations (catalog-reltio).

Fixes an issue with URLs for sheets and dashboards that exist in Tableau Online or in Tableau Server within a site other than the default site.

Additional datetime fields added for Looker objects and typed as xsd:dateTime.

Fixed an issue caused by an undocumented change in Tableau Online’s REST API when using the Tableau collector to harvest metadata from Tableau Online.

The generic jdbc collector harvests database name when cataloging Intersystems Cache databases

Running the Snowflake collector with the -A / --all-schemas option harvests metadata from all available schemas, as with other collectors

Fixed an issue with permalinks to objects in the MANTA collector .

Added support for Looker folders and additional attributes to the Looker metadata collector.

Added the ability to preview images to the Tableau metadata collector.

Fixed an issue with the handling of certain special characters in catalog resource IRIs.

The --schema option for JDBC collectors can now be specified multiple times to enable the cataloging of multiple schemas in a single catalog.

Updated Tableau collector to paginate additional graphql queries to avoid hitting Tableau Metadata API limits.

Updated the Hive2 collector to capture table-level metadata from the hive metastore

Updated the Tableau collector to allow the user to exclude specified Tableau objects from the catalog

Improvements to error messages produced when using a config-file to run the data.world Collector

We disallow running catalog-postgres and catalog-redshift in the same config file as the two collectors use incompatible JDBC drivers

Improved error handling throughout the data.world Collector

Improvements in representation of Tableau data source names in tableau catalogs

Improvements to the MANTA collector

Upgrade of Denodo collector to Denodo 8

Handle edge case of very large field values embedded in manta’s exported artifacts

Support for sites

Handle edge case of stored procedure columns in manta

Enhancements to domo collector output

Testing improvements

A minor tableau collector enhancement

Fix for an issue in the tableau collector in which column fields were sometimes not properly identifying the Tableau Table from which they sourced their data

Improvment to the presentation of domo catalogs in the platform UI.

Changes to the dockerhub repository where we house images containing non-released versions of the data.world Collector. Previously we were calling these “beta” releases; we now call them “release candidates”. The new repository is datadotworld/dwcc-rc and the image tags are x.y-rc-z where x.y is the next expected Collector release, and z is an increment.

The Tableau collector now emits RDF in which the object of `dct:creator` is a `dwec:Agent` instead of a string literal. This means we write additional details about the Tableau account that created the dashboard, via properties of the `dwec:Agent` resource. These details include: account name, account “full name”, and account email address (if they are populated in Tableau).

The PowerBI collector writes resources representing powerbi “data sources” that are now of a PowerBI-specific class, rather than `dwec:DataArtifact`.

It is now possible for users to set the level (severity) of log messages written to the console and log file. By default, we write “info” level messages; users can choose to write only errors (level=“ERROR”), errors+warnings (level=“WARN”), or all messages including debug trace (level=“DEBUG”). This is useful if we want to have customers run the data.world Collector with debug logging turned on, for troubleshooting problems etc.

License information for the data.world Collector is now available as a subcommand of the data.world Collector. To get all licensing information, run the command docker run -it --rm datadotworld/dwcc:X.XX display-license where X.XX is a version of the data.world Collector greater than or equal to 2.24.

Fixes an issue with the Tableau Server collector when cataloging multi-site server instances.

Adds --tableau-site parameter to enable user to restrict cataloging to a single site (not required, by default all sites in the instance are scanned). Value provided to --tableau-site can be a site ID or name.

Adds the parameter --all-databases to the Athena collector so that it can catalog all the databases accessible from the logged-in account.

Fixes some issues with datatypes for dwec:externalUrl predicates.

The Tableau collector formerly had a CLI parameter --tableau-project-id which could be used to catalog only assets in the project with the specified ID. The parameter is now --tableau-project and takes either a project ID or project name

Update to the MANTA collector to accommodate a minor change in the MANTA API with v 1.31. Customers who have updated their MANTA instance to v 1.31+ will want to use the data.world Collector 2.15+.

The Looker collector now works for non-admin Looker users; however, when the data.world Collector is run by a non-admin, the emitted catalog will not contain any information about databases used by Looker analysis assets (access to database information in Looker requires admin permissions).

All JDBC collectors now populate two new properties for dwec:DatabaseColumn: dwec:columnDefaultValue  and dwec:columnIsNullable, which contain the default value for that column in newly inserted rows, and whether the column can be null, respectively. (Note that only some databases/drivers provide this metadata…we put it in the catalog if it’s there).

Upload generated catalogs via the --upload / -U command-line parameters

Upload the the data.world Collector log when uploading generated catalogs with --upload

Fetch an organization's current catalog with the fetch-catalog command

Support for Denodo and Snowflake

Compatibility of JDBC catalogs with tables imported through data.world integrations

Ability to differentiate source information for databases cataloged from localhost

Cataloging of REMARKS fields into dct:descriptio