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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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.

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Platform Features

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Enable XLSX format for FastMap Export

FastMap supports XLSX format for importing data, but export currently only supports XLS format. Customers are starting to deprecate XLS, and need a way to also configure the OpenPages export to use XLSX format. Alternatively they need to disable t...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered

Embedded Workflow enable multiple email templates

Enable more than one(1) email template to be used with the Embedded Workflow Engine. There should not be a limit on the email templates.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Enable bulk update in Task Focused UI Grid Views

The Standard UI offers the ability to bulk update object instances in Filtered List Views or Grid Views. The Grid Views in the Task Focused UI so far are missing this ability.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Resend workflow notification if assignee gets updated

When the User field that corresponds to the Assignee on a workflow is changed they must use the refresh button (curly arrow) on the workflow to update the Assignee (as advised by support previously). This works as advised and the object then appea...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Add the ability to disable/enable individual Reporting Periods

Customers that have been using OpenPages for a very long time sometimes have a large number of Reporting periods - not all the data from all the Reporting Periods needs to be available to users through the UI - e.g. when you are creating Quarterly...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 4 Delivered

Allow more complex Validations (Workflow)

Depending on the functional unit process the validation can require more that one condition to be satisfied before an action is activated.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Hard Delete of Data from OpenPages

Currently any data that is deleted from OpenPages either via the UI or API is a "soft" delete, meaning the data is not deleted from the actual database tables. Furthermore it is not possible to delete data from old reporting periods.There should b...
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered

Embedded Workflow Email Send Emails on last step of workflow

Currently the embedded workflow will not send an email when moving to the final end / completion step.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered

Disable refresh every time you change tabs

Every time we change tabs, the application reloads the page. This makes work more time consuming because it takes time to reload. We want the refresh to be disabled, the user decides whether to reload the page.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered

Ability to create Activity Views looking up the association path

Current functionality only allows AVs to be built looking down the association path. We'd like the ability to also build Activity Views that look up the association path.
almost 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered