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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    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.
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 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...
    16 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

    Include transform feature from Natural to Java

    Some SPGI clients (public tenders within them) that are using IBM's Mainframe are requesting to convert from Natural language (SoftwareAG) to Java in order to modernise it. They would like to avoid using ADABAS and start using relational databases...
    10 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 2 Future consideration

    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

    Option to change Field type from Simple String to Large Text

    We are facing the challenge that after implementation, it is found out that simple string fields do not allow enough characters to be added and therefore we need to change the field into a large text field.This is currently only possible by creati...
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

    VSCode interface for ADDI

    VSCode is becoming the main IDE that is supported by IBM. Eclipse as an IDE and programs built on Eclipse RCP are starting to be phased out at customers.Bringing the main ADDI GUI from RCP to VSCode thus enables usability in the future.
    over 1 year ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 3 Future consideration

    wca4z : AD Connect support bidirectional text conversion : possibility to retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters.

    When retrieve COBOL programs and copybooks with Arabic and Latin characters, the Arabic characters are written from left to right, instead of right to left. Today AD Connect does not support bidirectional encoding. example : AD Connect is configur...
    9 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 1 Future consideration

    Allow for custom auroralogging.properties file to define custom loggers that aren't overwritten by upgrades/fix packs/interim fixes

    When implementing custom loggers we have to place these in the auroralogging.properties file. This works great until the file gets re-created during the installation of upgrades, fix packs or interim fixes. We would like a custom auroralogging.pro...
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Future consideration

    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...
    3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

    Issue Entry App Form

    Currently, there is an existing LossEvent entry app form that enables users to create loss event records without needing to log in to OpenPages. This is very helpful & efficient, especially for users who only need to submit data occasionally. ...
    4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

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