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Spectrum Discover

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Flow diagram between the pods in OpenShift

In order to better understand Spectrum Discover a flow diagram would be very useful. For example: We open the web UI and click on connections:frontend pod -> connmgr -> db2whrest 2. We start a policy via the REST endpoint:policyengine pod -&...
11 months ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

Make connmgr pod persists its memory state to avoid stalled scans

When the connmgr pod in OpenShift is restarted while a scan is running but not fully indexed into DB2 yet we're stuck in a loop. A newly started connmgr pod does not know about its previuos scans hence it can not commit a scan when asked by the co...
11 months ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

Add functionality to Python SDK for Spetctrum Discover

When run in OpenShift, every pod that uses the SDK seems to require root privileges because the SDK mounts data connections under /nfs-scanner/. We have some Python scripts that use the SDK to work on files and apply tags to them in Spectrum Disco...
11 months ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Planned for future release

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 ...
11 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

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

Streamline total indexed objects count

Since the introduction of the Spectrum Protect feature, Spectrum Discover does no longer report the total number of indexed objects. We see the total number of objects that are non-Spectrum Protect specific in the respective tab and we see the tot...
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Planned for future release

Spectrum Discover Reporting

Spectrum Discover is a powerful and useful tool, however, the reporting capability needs to match the product capability.
over 2 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Not under consideration

Provide ability to add custom logo in Discover UI header

This is a high priority RFE from Princeton per discussions directly with customer, offering management (Par Hettinga), and sales team (Brian Seery, et al).Suggested Solution Provide customer with ability to display their own graphic in header line...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Future consideration

Supported for LDAP Configuration user passwords to include dollar symbol

Spectrum Discover does not currently support the "$" symbol in the LDAP Admin user password when setting up LDAP authentication.We would prefer to include special characters in the password for security, we request "$" be allowed by Spectrum Disco...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Planned for future release