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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Limit password characters

Our security guidelines for compatibility with multiple different systems state that passwords should include only English characters. (plus special and numerical ones of course) But there is no way to enforce such a limit on the Netezza database ...
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

User lock for a few hours after failed log on attempts

For security reasons after multiple failed log in attempts a users account should be blocked for a limited time. Right now the system only allows for permanent lock of account and that is problematic as each unlock needs to be done manually.
over 1 year ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Granularity for backup

Ideal example of it is 'staging database', which may not be worth backing up. Backing up unnecessary databases is a toll on resources (Network bandwidth, CPU, storage). Having choice of which databases user can backup and at what time may help our...
over 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Functionality already exists

Enable Azure Standard Blob Block Storage (General Purpose V2) compatibility

Since Premium Blob is 10 times more expensive than Standard Blob, Standard Blob must be thoroughly investigated, tested and implemented as an option.
8 months ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Submitted

Workflow Administration - Terminate Workflow Instances

PLEASE create separate security permissions around Workflow Instances. Right now, it's baked into the "Workflow" security permission. This isn't helpful - we have to rely on our IT team to terminate workflows when we (the business leads) should be...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Ability to specify NetBackup Copy Number on nzrestore operations

With multiple CP4D appliances, and multiple NetBackup Media Server Clusters, it would be beneficial to be able to specify the NetBackup Copy Number on nzrestore operations to match that of the most local NetBackup copy. For instance, CP4D applianc...
over 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic history configuration

To switch current history configurations one has to restart NPS system which takes a large amount of time on big systems.
almost 5 years ago in Netezza Performance Server 1 Future consideration

Adding new column "Span Columns" in the objects administration of profiles

When configuring an object of a profile there are currently 5 columns visible in the "Object Fields" section:- Name- Field Group- Label- Required- Display Type To check whether any field has the "Span Columns" set to true or false, you have to cli...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Workflow Administration

"Workflow Instances" is a function currently within the "Workflow Maintenance" task screen. This set up does not allow certain tasks available in "Workflow Instances" to be delegated to a lower level of administration without giving additional con...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Allow System Name field to be set by calculation

When defining a calculation on an object that is auto-named, it is not possible to set the System Fields:Name. It is possible to define it, but it will not work (IBM support confirmed this is expected behavior and will create an APAR to prevent th...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Not under consideration