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Spectrum Discover

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Increase tagname character limit from 32 to 64 characters or more

We are using Spectrum Discover in a research and academia environment. Whenlooking towards how we will curate and manage tags as the number of includedprojects grows, we see that the tagname limit of 32 characters is a problem.When extracting exif...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Future consideration

Need complete version information in GUI question mark info

When using the GUI the granularity of the version info only displays 2.0.4, it does not include the build version or forth element of version number (2.0.4.1). Right now only administrators can identify the full version installed via the command p...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Future consideration

Query Table Columns selection not sorted

When working in Query Builder we found that the "Table Columns" selection list was sorted in order it was added to Spectrum Discover, not alphabetically sorted, this makes finding the desire column to select.
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration

Storing unknown tags returned by applications for review and addition after a policy is completed.

Currently, any tags you wish to extract using a deep-inspect policy must be defined in spectrum discover before you create the policy. In the development of an application for extracting technical metadata from a range of file types, we are met wi...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Not under consideration

Reduce ffdc ALL output size to always stay under 100GB

Disk space on the root filesystem in Spectrum Discover can be very limited, and when building support logs package for IBM support we need to ensure that the resulting log package is small enough to fit on disk, small enough to transfer off of the...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

A better way

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

Windows explorer Feature

This demand aims at implementing a new feature providing a windows explorer like feature Please check the attached slides for more details
9 months ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under 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,...
9 months ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Future consideration

Bulk adding tags to files via REST API without a policy

We use a SQL select query to fetch files from the Spectrum Discover metaocean table and let a script work on these files. The script produces a JSON file with the fkey of every file and a JSON dictionary with tags that we want to add. Since we're ...
10 months ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration