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Allow Archive to convert to CSV without license for Test Data

We have to provide files extracts for areas in the business. We would like to have the ability to give a CSV file extract of the data. Currently, you have to have a different license to run Optim Convert. We would like to be able to run Optim Conv...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Estimate time for archive

This may only apply for Retirement since we use all reference tables without SQL. It would be a nice to have if Optim could have a function to take an archive request and attempt to estimate the time required to archive. I see this as looking at i...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Application Retirement 0 Not under consideration

Remove the requirement for GRANT on stored procedures

Currently when the stored procedures are inserted, Optim forces a GRANT to be issued to the procedures. For Oracle, we can supply the owner as the grantee. However for SQL Server this is not possible since SQL Server rejects having the owner of th...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Remove Requirement for inserting stored procedures

The requirement for gaining access to the permissions to have the product insert the stored procedures is an issue for us. It would be very good to remove this requirement and not require the use of stored procedures.
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 1 Not under consideration

Add additional functions to Optim Connect

Optim Connect should support some additional functions that are now being supported by the various DBMS out there. An example is the COALESCE function. We frequently have to convert queries supplied to by the business because they have functions u...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Process large reference tables by partition

As I understand it, reference tables will only be process with one thread at a time. However, I know that large tables that are not reference tables are spilt up by keys to allow for multi threaded processing. It seems that if you have a reference...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Allow record count limit for reference tables

We only do Archive for decommission. We like to test Optim against each of the tables to ensure we will not have any surprises when we run the full archive. It is very disappointing to run an archive and have it fail several hours into the process...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Batch or Multi Delete of Archive Requests and Access Definitions

Currently we have a method to test Optim archive against the tables that we are going to archive. To do this against Sql server, we have to take the Access definition and archive request and generate one per table. This causes a large number of it...
about 6 years ago in Optim / Optim Archive 0 Not under consideration

Enable advanced routing based on Studio application

Advanced routing in IBM administration console allows only based on package, role and group routing sets. It will be beneficial to add enhancement to route based on studio application where report has been built.
about 9 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Static link to an object in OpenPages should open in a tab in the same browser window, not launch a new window

If a user adds a Dashboard panel with a static link to an object within OpenPages that they have access to in their current profile, the view for the object should open up as a tab in the same browser window, not launch a new separate window.
about 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

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