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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

Improvement in the check for high serial values

I'm trying to check if a serial value has reached its upper limit. I noticed the following unpleasant behaviour. In the sysmaster tables sysptnhdr and sysactptnhdr the currently used serial values are in three fields for the datatypes serial, seri...
over 5 years ago in Information Server 2 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

IMAM XSD Import from Engine Tier

InfoSphere Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM) allows you to import .xsd files to get metadata about respective .xml data files. However the way IMAM currently works is that the .xsd file you want to import can only be on the client from which the IMAM ...
about 8 years ago in Information Server 0 Not under consideration

New UI - ability to save Manage Views sort order

There is currently no way to save the sort order in the Manage Views screen. It is very frustrating when working with many views that you have to keep applying the sort order every time you go into Manage Views
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Audit Trail for the publishing Workflow and View

Currently , we might not be able to capture any history of publishing for views or workflows in Audit Trail. I believe we need to track such information. Furthermore, it is more useful if the detailed change history of views and workflows will be ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

Auto-update "Contained Relationships" of Physical Data model / Schema Relationships

In Metadata Asset Manager (IMAM), relationships can be defined between Physical Data Models (PDMs) and Implemented Data Resource (IDR) schemas. These relationships can have "Contained Relationships" which associate design tables with IDR tables wi...
about 5 years ago in Information Server  / Governance 1 Not under consideration

Ability to assign default profile for an user based on AD Group

Currently, a default profile is allowed only at platform level which forces users to manually switch to their assigned profile based on AD group the very first time they log into the system. Instead, if there is an option to assign default profile...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

IBM DataStage support PostgreSQL

The "official document or information for IBM DataStage 11.7 support PostgreSQL 13.x under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x" could not get now. Same situaation as PostgreSQL 14.x.
over 3 years ago in Information Server 1 Not under consideration