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Hide Update and Checkout button on Readonly File/SOXDocument

Even if SOXDocument is readonly for a user, still he can see Update/Checkout button, which give false impression to user that he can edit attachment. Please hide this button.
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Workflow advanced logic validations and custom error messages

When defining a workflow advanced logic validation with a custom error message the information provided to the user when the validation fails is confusing. The custom error message as define does show in the yellow drop down guidance box that disp...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Under review

Snowflake Bulk not able to read from read-only database due to the temporary file format.

When Snowflake Bulk stage tries to read from a read-only database, it fails with the message: "Could not create a temporary file format (SNOWFLAKE_47)" due to the lack of permissions to create the file format object in the source database. This is...
11 months ago in StreamSets 1 Under review

File Attachment Versions history should only show versions with updated file attachments

When a user adds a file attachment, the File Attachment task view shows the Versions table. However, when the user updates only a field value such as "Abstract" or "Description", and clicks Save, a new entry in the Versions table appears, which ma...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Add support for inline file attachment editing of Microsoft Visio documents

Users can open Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages. Every time a user clicks save within a file that is opened in this way, the file is saved in the OpenPages file repository. However, other users cannot see the changes until the file i...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

When importing data from a CSV file using update the original asset allow to only modify the columns present in the file and preserve as they were

In a catalog, when assigning terms to columns "data asset" through the import of a CSV file, then current behaviour forces you that all columns if a table exist in the file being imported. For example if a table contains 9 column and I want to ass...
6 months ago in Knowledge Catalog 0 Under review

ControllerWeb - Reconciliation optimisation

Currently, the limitation concerns only the “IC reconciliation” (see – “Largest Difference Accepted During Reconciliation”) and NOT the reconciliation between Assets and Liabilities… Therefore, could you add a field in order to reconcile with a ma...
almost 2 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 0 Under review

Datagate authnetification using user / certificate

« At the present time we’re using Datagate to replicate in a live stream our DB2 z databases on DB2 LUW (Linux one) instances. This replication is done using a fixed user/password to connect to our DB2z instances. As it’s not recommended by our se...
over 2 years ago in Db2 for z/OS Data Gate 1 Under review

Provide Configurability for Gantt Chart Labels

When you create a Gantt Chart on the OpenPages Dashboard, it frequently does not display labels for the X-axis in a useful way. If you take a look at the attached screenshot, the only month names that are displayed are Feb, Nov and Dec for the who...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

Add Table Action Truncate for BigQuery Connector

On CP4D DataStage NextGen the table actions available for BigQuery connector currently are Append and Replace. According official docs: Method Description Append Append creates the table if the table doesn’t exist. If the table already exists, no ...
over 2 years ago in DataStage 0 Under review