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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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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com) - Use this site to view all of your ideas, create new ideas for any IBM product, or search for ideas across all of IBM.

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End User UI

Preserve Page State in Child Association Grid

When users navigate within a child association grid that contains multiple pages, the system does not retain the current page state after opening and editing a record. Instead, it automatically resets the grid view back to Page 1, requiring users ...
23 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Functionality already exists

Questionnaire : continuous browsing of questions through Sections as done currently thru SubSections

Hi, In a questionnaire, when browsing questions in the main display area showing questions and answers, the continuous browsing of questions/answers is possible troughout the different sub-sections of a single Section, but is not possible between ...
28 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Future consideration

Ability to duplicate ( sampling ) a single Questionnaire assessment and duplications/samples created will be then gathered averaged when answered

Glossary : QA = questionnaire assessment Hi, The functionality requested here is to : 1- duplicate a certain number of times ( 5 times, 10 times, 20 times ) the same identical questionnaire assessment in order to create identical copies of the QA ...
28 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

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.
8 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

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...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Under review

Ability to Filter for Items with Zero Parent or Child objects

It would be extremely useful to have the ability to filter for objects that have zero linked records. For example: Filter on Events that are not linked to any Risks Filter on Controls that are not linked to any Risks This would help teams quickly ...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 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 ...
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Future consideration

End User UI enhancement (Custom charts)

Problem Statement: Currently, we provide clients the flexibility to choose their own risk matrices. However, when using the dashboard chart, the filter options display extra values and expose certain values that users should not have access to. Wi...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI Future consideration