Edit: I see there are a few parts of this request that still don't exist. Leaving this comment here as a record of the current behaviour.

The Summary of the parent epic now shows in the Parent column:

Does this satisfy the requirements of the watchers of this ticket? Thank you!

This seems like a no brainer functionality and still not implemented.  3 years after it was reported!

Discovered that the bug is that Jira calls an Epic a Parent in the drop down menu. Thus you can display the epic in the dashboard by selecting parent. 

This is clearly a bug. Epic is in the drop down list and can be assigned as a column heading. It just fails to populate the content. I need this for the dashboard!

@wendy You said your project was set up as next-gen / team-managed "erroneously." It is possible to move all of your issues in that project over to a classic / company-managed one. In fact, I did this just today for lack of functionality. Instructions on how to do this are here: https://support.atlassian.com/jira-service-management-cloud/docs/migrate-between-next-gen-and-classic-projects/

Hi @wendy I couldn't agree more. We go by Epics too and its currently inconvenient to not display/filter the epic name on the table list of many other tasks and story tickets all bundled up in the list. Very difficult to differentiate the tasks and issues when the epic isn't displayed. I would think this would be a quick fix for the Atlassian team. Having said that - hope this comes sooner rather than later as it would help on our productivity very much! 

@andrew Yay! Somebody else thinks this would be good too!  Yes, my project was initially set up as a Next-Gen project erroneously and everytime I need some certain bit of functionality for something – it is always not built-in to Next-Gen project but is standard on Classic.
One of the things I have to do for my client is list out all the pointed stories, enablers and spikes according to Epic. I thought I could do this quickly using an Advanced filter, only to discover after much research, that you cannot filter by epic on next-gen project - only in classic version - ARGH!

This would be a very helpful feature to have and I wish they would include it in the filters.  It is such a basic thing, ya know.

Hi there, indeed this would be very helpful for our team and when we do sprint kick-offs 

@Wendy You need to be logged in and then you should be able to vote & follow with the links at the top right of the page.

How do I vote on this issue?  I desperately need this functionality.