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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
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under 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 ...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

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 -&...
over 1 year ago in Storage 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage 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...
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Access DB2 with Python

How to connect to DB2 Database with or via a python script?
over 1 year ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Limitation in the connmgr pod in OpenShift

We discussed a limitation in the connmgr pod in OpenShift with Joseph Dain in Hamburg. Due to the cgroup settings in OpenShift a pod can only have 1024 pids. Since every scan creates ~100 or more threads we reach this threshold soon causing the wh...
almost 2 years ago in Storage Discover 1 Not under consideration

Add a dictionary search

We can already use regex to inspect documents and add tags to them. But is there a more convenient way to add whole dictionaries? I would like to add the following functionality: We define a dictionary called "Hamburg" with hundreds or possibly th...
over 2 years ago in Storage Discover 2 Not under consideration