# Analyst functionality **URL:** \ **Category:** Community Support\ **Tags:** add-ons\ **Created:** [October 21, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/analyst-functionality/12690 "2022-10-21T17:04:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![phutt1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@phutt1](https://forum.kx.com/u/phutt1)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/analyst-functionality/12690/1 "2022-10-21T17:04:00Z")
I’m looking in to Kx Analyst as an IDE and a few of our users have begun to it, and will be collating a few feature requests in this thread. Please can these be assessed and considered as improvements to the IDE? 2022.10.21 - A Linux-like SIGINT function for the Windows instance of KX Analyst, so queries can be cancelled. Use case example being if I run a query against a busy HDB, I am locked out all my scratch pads entirely until this completes when ideally I’d like to be able to cancel the query and connect to another HDB - Ability to open multiple Kx Analyst sessions on a single machine (eg iteration of the port defined on creation) - Integration with git bash; when cloning a repo via Analyst, git bash doesn’t recognize the repo location and vice versa. Plus believe not all of the “git bash” commands are covered in the Analyst UI.   2022.10.24 - Add configurable “folders” to the Connection Manager, so that a user might more easily sort their connections (eg splitting regions and environments)   2022.10.27 Sorting columns by clicking the column header does not work on Inspect tab. 2 distinct bugs: - When opening as a new window (ctrl+i), sort (double click) works once for descending but then subsequent sorts do nothing - would expect it to go to ascending, and then back to original order. - When opening as a tab in same window (ctrl+shift+i), sort does not work at all - seems to try to run the original data request instead of sorting the variable which has been defined - An additional feature request for Inspect tab (ctrl+shift+i) would be an option for subsequent "inspect"s to go to the same tab, instead of opening a new tab each time.    2022.11.11 Is there a chance of a non-browser based version of the API? Users (including myself) are finding the clashes with Google Chrome shortcuts to be frustrating at best.   Thanks Phil ---
**Author:** ![davidcrossey1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@davidcrossey1](https://forum.kx.com/u/davidcrossey1)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/analyst-functionality/12690/2 "2022-10-23T23:53:00Z")
Thanks Phil, I’ll share this thread of requests back with our R&D team.   Kind regards, David ---
**Author:** ![phutt1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@phutt1](https://forum.kx.com/u/phutt1)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2022, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/analyst-functionality/12690/3 "2022-10-24T09:51:00Z")
2022.10.24 Add configurable “folders” to the Connection Manager, so that a user might more easily sort their connections (eg splitting regions and environments) ---
**Author:** ![phutt1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@phutt1](https://forum.kx.com/u/phutt1)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/analyst-functionality/12690/4 "2022-10-27T15:40:00Z")
2022.10.27 Sorting columns by clicking the column header does not work on Inspect tab. 2 distinct bugs: - When opening as a new window (ctrl+i), sort (double click) works once for descending but then subsequent sorts do nothing - would expect it to go to ascending, and then back to original order. - When opening as a tab in same window (ctrl+shift+i), sort does not work at all - seems to try to run the original data request instead of sorting the variable which has been defined   - An additional feature request for Inspect tab (ctrl+shift+i) would be an option for subsequent "inspect"s to go to the same tab, instead of opening a new tab each time.  ---
**Author:** ![phutt1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a4c791/32.png) [@phutt1](https://forum.kx.com/u/phutt1)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.kx.com/t/analyst-functionality/12690/5 "2022-11-11T10:05:00Z")
2022.11.11 Is there a chance of a non-browser based version of the API? Users (including myself) are finding the clashes with Google Chrome shortcuts to be frustrating at best.