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Spectrum Discover

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Chargeback use case - more generally, Enable policies to create/define metadata using arithmetic expressions.

In summary, customers want to be able to perform arithmetic expressions and, if possible, leverage db2wh functions when defining policy to assign value to a tag. For example, customer wants to assign chargeback amount to a tag, "cost" as follows:c...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Planned for future release

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

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

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

Requesting export and import of metadata ability to second Spectrum Discover instance.

Requesting a method of exporting the metadata database out of Spectrum Discover to a second Spectrum Discover server. This is of interest when there is a desire to share select parts of the metadata via a Spectrum Discover system without connectiv...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 1 Not under consideration

Would like choice to ONLY show tags for selection if present in results list

When we search through metadata and get a table of results, we can choose which columns to show and which to hide Many tags are not defined for my selections results, we would like to only have tags present in the results list in the tag column di...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 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

Match field names in UI and REST API

In working with the REST API and spectrum discovers UI side-by-side,we've come across a couple of differences between the two. Specifically, for policy creation the UI requires a "Policy type", while the API requires and "action_id".Additionally, ...
almost 3 years ago in Spectrum Discover 0 Planned for future release

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

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