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Ability to Control data mapping into Read Only fields (Fields that are read only due to calculations)

Currently, when a field was made read only due to calculation ( ie.. Using the field in the set operation of a calculation), When we use fastmap to load data into that field, it can't be overridden. This seems to be accurate from a perspective tha...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Ability to extend metadata for Users

We require the ability to add meta data to the user within OpenPages. Currently we are limited to First name, Last Name , email and Description. It would be valuable for us to be able to extend to items like Dept , Location etc. This would be data...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Define a mode more flexible for DEV or TEST environment

Possibility given in a development environment / phase to: - delete a field - rename a field - change its basic data type
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Track the export history

The export of user data (*) is currently not logged. Considering the fact that SaaS use is becoming more and more common these days, customers are highly concerned about the security of cloud services, and we believe that information leaks are an ...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Future consideration

DB Script to purge entire data set

When DEV is refreshed with PROD data, Clients would not want to expose their confidential data on a Non-PROD environment. To some extent there are purge/anonymization APIs but it is object/resource specific. It would be better to have a DB script ...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Not under consideration

Implementing setting Forbid the orphans (false/true)

Since current version (IBM OpenPages on Cloud) doesn't prevent creation of orphan object from being removed from their only parent in order to consistently ensure data integrity it is suggested to implement System setting called Forbid the orphans...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

OpenPages Logs in NCSA Format

Customer is requesting the OpenPages Logs can be structured in a way that can be automatically monitored to facilitate/anticipate Environment issues. One of the suggestios is to make OpenPages Logs in a NCSA format, so it could be connected not on...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 5 Delivered

Provide archival features to efficiently manage large volume of data within OpenPages

As our data increases to a larger volume ( i.e 700GB ) everyday, it becomes longer and longer to manage the data archival / db2 backup process.Also certain task such as reporting schema rebuild takes large amount of space (i.e 50 GB of db2 log spa...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 0 Not under consideration

Deletion of closed reporting periods

With the importance of deleting sensitive data combined with GDPR related duties, we would appreciate a solution to select and then delete (or anonymize) reporting periods. More specifically, our system includes various reportings happening on a q...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered

Enable ability to extract data for WORM storage for record retention

System: OpenPagesDescription: Various industries have regulatory requirements to capture and store records to WORM / Long term storage solutions. CMIS is an industry standard API to communicate with WORM solutions and provides the common interface...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Not under consideration