IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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    Enable query results to be exported in Excel (.xlsx) format in addition to CSV.

    Currently, users in Query Workspace can only download query results in CSV format. Many customers request the ability to also export results as Excel files (.xlsx), as Excel is the most commonly used format for internal reporting, data sharing, an...
    about 1 month ago in watsonx.data 0 Submitted

    Add support for the multi-region access endpoints by extending the validations to accept the endpoints as this is required for Disaster Recovery

    All the details of this request are found in https://github.ibm.com/lakehouse/tracker/issues/35080 AWS Multi Region (MRAP) required for Disaster Recovery for TSYS deployment of watsonx.data lakehouse. This is currently not supported by Software Hu...
    2 months ago in watsonx.data 0

    The timestamp function does not yet fully support use across multiple global locations with different time zones

    For example, the timestamp is set for Tokyo time and for US end users, when they sign-off on something using the workflow. If they are signing off on a test using the action button in the workflow at 12:00 noon, it will show a date of the next day...
    about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Planned for future release

    User can share customized dashboard panel with another user

    We have users that want to create a dashboard panel which is more focused on their country: e.g. issues assigned to the 4 different managers across their country. This is not something we can make available for every user because of the specific a...
    13 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

    autosave capability

    Provide an autosave capability prior to the user being logged out of OpenPages. Currently, OpenPages logs out a user after 15 minutes of inactivity. Prior to that automatic logoff, OpenPages should save the latest draft of object.
    3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

    New Grid view field to update text fields (may be enabled in Nested View)

    As a user I want an ability to update data directly within text fields in a grid view, similar to the functionality of Excel. This would eliminate the need to open individual records each time fields such as description or comments require modific...
    3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

    Hide Public Filters

    There should be a way to hide public filters from a grid view. Filters used in task views do not always need to be displayed to a user so these should have the option to be hidden. Controlled via a group access rather than individual user or enabl...
    5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

    Object Commenting - Reply To

    I have demonstrated the Object Commenting feature to our key OpenPages users and they will start to use it by Q1 2026. They have observed though that it may not work too well for oversight users that may be commenting on many different objects to ...
    2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

    Native integration with AWS Lake Formation and Glue Data Catalog (watsonx.data SaaS on AWS)

    watsonx.data is being evaluated as a strategic query engine in AWS-based Data Mesh architectures, where governance is managed through AWS Lake Formation and metadata is stored in the Glue Data Catalog. Currently, watsonx.data does not natively sup...
    6 months ago in watsonx.data 1 Planned for future release

    Generate PDF documents from documents stored in OpenPages

    A new feature for converting Microsoft documents (Word, Excel, etc.) to PDF would be very useful. Users can upload documents in various formats to OpenPages, but reports for regulatory bodies must be generated in PDF format. With this feature, the...
    about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

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