IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


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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...
1 day ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Allow to choose which reports can be added to the panel on the shared between different lines of business dashboard

So far there are only 2 options to choose which report can be added to the panels on the dashboard: 1. all reports as a tree of all published reports 2. profile reports As soon as the profile can be shared between different lines of business, they...
2 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

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...
9 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Submitted

Show Excel in Cognos Toolbar instead of Excel when an output format of a report with a prompt page is XLS

Now when the output format of the report with the prompt is Excel (in Cognos is Excel. in OpenPages is XLS), the toolbar shows HTML. If the outcome in OpenPages is spreadsheetML, then the Cognos Toolbar displays Excel, that's the expected behavior...
17 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Submitted

Display Name on Actual @Mention Comment

When adding a comment mention you can search by First Name Last Name/Display Name. When the comment is actually logged, it defaults to UserName which in a lot of orgs is a userID/ alphanum string. This makes it difficult to remember who you're col...
23 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Functionality already exists

Preview Questionnaire Template display logic by QT Developer

Our users are developed Questionnaire Template (QT), and they want to verify that display logic works correctly without creating a Questionnaire Assessment (QA) task. It would be appreciated if there's a way to review or test the implementation wi...
28 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 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 ...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Ability to customize content of MyTasks (e.g. additional columns/headers, etc.)

Currently, the content and layout of the My Tasks tab cannot be changed. Information is limited only to the ‘Type’, ‘Workflow Name’, ‘Stage’(Status), ‘Criticality’ and ‘Stage Due Date’. Some of this information may not be valuable to most of our u...
about 1 month ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Under review

Ability to update data within Grid

When viewing data in a Grid view - be it the master grid view or a grid within a task view, it would be nice to have an edit mode toggle similar to how we currently have in task view where users can update attributes directly from the grid instead...
about 2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 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...
2 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Under review

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