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Storage Discover

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A better way (single node cluster)

11 months ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Understanding of spectrum Discover tables

As part of the use of CP4D it is important for Airbus to know the exact use of each of the tables that we could or should 'integrate' or not into CP4D/Cognos for example. This request aims to identify, for example, tables presenting data that has ...
11 months ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Horizontal scaling of spcetrum environement in Openshift

In order to optimize the general performance of the Discover spectrum environment implemented in Openshift, it seems important to us to consider that benefiting from the horizontal scalability capabilities in Openshift would be a must For example,...
about 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Enable Discover to scan for Data Classes such as Last Name, First Name, Date of Birth, GPS Coordinates, Latitude and Longitude

The Discover product when used for scanning an unstructured source (document) is able to use the Regex based data classes in Cloud Pak for Data/ Watson Knowledge Catalog. However, Discover product is not able to leverage non-regex based data class...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Enable Discover to complete full scan of Unstructured source (document) and collect metrics such as gross count and net count

The Discover product when used for scanning an unstructured source (document) stops scanning the document after detecting the first instance of the data class such as SSN or Phone number. At this time, the results from using the Discover product o...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Fine(r) grained RBAC model

As of today Spectrum is having hability to grant rights according to end user profile. A user can be for example a collection admin or a data user having then a set of predefined permissions. Would it be possible to assign finer permissions based ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Missing time stamp

It seems obvious to us that it would be useful to know when the scanning of a Qtree has ended. The only existing keys to date are NameStatusMessageScan_recordsIndexed_recordsPhaseTotal_phases The endpoint we are looking at is sd connmgr/v1/scan/QT...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Add button "Test LDAP connection ..."

In the Spectrum Discover web interface in home screen -> Access management -> Authentication domains -> Add domain connection a button to test a LDAP connection would be useful. Idea: When all text boxes in "Add domain connection" are fil...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Improvement in Data Connection UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" the header line of the table is not fixed. When scrolling down in the table it's not obvious which column has which information. A fixed header l...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration

Implement a new status i.e Qtree mounted / scanned

As of now, in Spectrum Discover (Data Souce Management) page is not showing what Qtree has been mounted and which one is scanned also. Currently there's a green tick which does not correspond to any reliable information (either Qtree mounted or Qt...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 0 Future consideration