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Spectrum Discover

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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 ...
12 months ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration

connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries

We have the requirement to connect to DB2 directly due to more complex SQL queries (readonly, so only select) and have some questions: - If we run a pod with our Python code in the Spectrum Discover namespace in OpenShift can we add the secret "db...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 4 Not under consideration

Provide description of "Indexing new scan data" on Spectrum Discover web UI

We can see "Indexing new scan data" in the web interface under Data Connections -> Scan history. Some scans show "Indexing new scan data" for days and we don't see any progress. Is it possible to display all steps ("Scanning NFS mount", "Indexi...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

Access DB2 with Python

How to connect to DB2 Database with or via a python script?
about 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under 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...
about 1 year ago in Spectrum 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 Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration

Have up to 10 data connections in circle graph

The home screen of the Spectrum Discover web interface shows a circle graph with all data connections. This may be useful if you only have up to 10 data connections but it is confusing with more data connections. It may also cause problems when we...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Planned for future release

Improvement in Data connections direct link UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a direct link from a connections name to the corresponding scan history would be very useful. At the moment it is very cumbersome to find: 1. A c...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

Improvement in Data connections filter in UI

In the Spectrum Discover web interface under "main menu" -> "Data Connections" -> "Connections" a filter would be very useful especially because we are already dealing with more than 300 data sources. At the moment it is very cumbersome to f...
over 1 year ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Functionality already exists

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 Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration