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HCL Connections Ideas Portal

Welcome to the HCL Connections Product Ideas Lab! The place where you can submit product ideas and enhancement request. We encourage you to participate by voting on, commenting on, and creating new ideas. All new ideas will be evaluated by the HCL Product Management & Engineering teams, and the next steps will be communicated. While not all submitted ideas will be executed upon, community feedback will play a key role in influencing which ideas are and when they will be implemented.

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Please provide support for RHEL 8.x asap for 6.0 and 6.5. Connections releases

RHEL 6.x is running out of support end of Nov 2020. We want to skip 7.x to save extra efforts. The official requirements for Connections do not list RHEL 8.x. Please add this asap.
over 3 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 5 No Plans to Implement

Yearly calendar entries and holidays in events

It would be very useful, to set yearly calendar entries for example birthdays or holidays in connections events (calendar).
over 5 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Widget for Watson Workspace

Would love to connect directly to a Watson Space from a Community. Having a link is not enough. Being capable to interact directly from a Community would be great. Thanks
over 5 years ago in 10. Engagement Center 4 No Plans to Implement

Full Interoperability between Connections Events and Outlook Meeting

Currently ConNext events can only be imported via ics or copy from feed in one's Outlook Calendar. Both have the drawback that you don't get informed in case of update of the original event. Moreover you might forget to set a reminder. Also impo...
about 4 years ago in 02. Communities 0 No Plans to Implement

Automatically add communities that user has access to into the IBM Connections plugin

The customer is using the IBM Connections Desktop Plugin, and they are using communities very dynamically (per customer). Customer would like to automatically add communities that user has access to into the IBM Connections plugin and refresh tha...
over 5 years ago in 12. Desktop Plugins 0 No Plans to Implement

Support SAP Solution Manager 7.2 on a single VM in C4SAP in IBM Cloud

On December 31, 2017, the mainstream maintenance for SAP Solution Manager 7.1 has ended, since then, all new IBM Cloud for SAP Applications solutions must have the SAP Solution Manager 7.2 instead. One of the characteristics of this new release is...
over 5 years ago in 13. Other 2 No Plans to Implement

Activites can be a Trello/Planner Killer

With new UI and API Activities can be a serious alternative to Trello or MS Planner.
over 5 years ago in 05. Blogs/Wikis/Forums/Activities 3 No Plans to Implement

Support for http/2 in IBM Connections

Since Ibm application server 8.5+ supports http/2 and Http/2 brings many new improvements over http it would be a great feature if Connections would add support for http/2 in Connections. https://developer.ibm.com/articles/wa-http2-under-the-h...
about 5 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement

Use docker registry to provide the Component Pack images in a handy, standardised way

The Component Pack is delivered as ~4GB Download archive, that needs to be unpacked and manually pushed to a custom docker registry. This is absolutely not handy and misses the concept. I'm working with docker for several years and never had such ...
about 5 years ago in 09. Administration 1 No Plans to Implement

Support for "Rocky Linux" as open and free LTS-Alternative to CentOS

Connections currently only supports CentOS/RHEL, which is EOL soon on June 30, 2024. CentOS has switched from downstream to upstream, so CentOS 8 will be hard for you to support and for us to administrative I guess. Rocky Linux is a downstream alt...
over 2 years ago in 01. General/Multiple Areas 1 No Plans to Implement