Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:


Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,


Post your ideas

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


ADD A NEW IDEA

Administration UI

Showing 38

Separate configuration files from attachment files

The settings and attachment files are together on the file server and there is no way to distinguish them, we need a way to distinguish between the 2 types of filessystem configuration files together with attached files can even be included in a n...
4 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

TFUI Allow Bar Chart Order to be based on dropdown display order

When adding a bar chart, there is no option to select the sort order of the bars. It automatically orders the bars from longest to shortest. Clients have requested to allow sorting of the bars to be fixed order based on the dropdown order. For exa...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Setting to keep descending objects always aligned with the primary parent folder

While not a one-size-fits-all solution, we found that many clients prefer to keep object instances aligned in folders that match the primary ancestor. E.g. if an issue was originally created under one entity, and they decide to switch the ownershi...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Planned for future release

Ability for admin to delete fields from the UI

Fields are often created in error or are no longer in use but they can never be deleted from OpenPages. This causes a lot of confusion in the administation screens. Admins should be able to at least hide these fields from their views
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Association access control by security rule on the child object

Association access control by security rule on the child object, for now, in OpenPages, it only works with parent object, it would be nice that we can restrain association access on the child object as well.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Not under consideration

Add options END_USER_PROFILE / IN_PROFILE in workflow Applicability criteria.

Some workflows need to be started depending on the Profile of the user. Currently it is not possible to validate the profile of the user in the Applicability section of Workflows. The validation of Profile is a common feature in other functionalit...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 3 Not under consideration

TFUI Chart Method Type should include Percentage

The TFUI chart options for Method Type does not include Percentage. For example, if creating a Bar Chart on Issues by Type, while it is meaningful to show the absolute Count for each Bar, it would be equally, if not more, meaningful to show the Pe...
6 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 1 Under review

Global Search results additional field

In the Standard interface it was possible to add an extra field for Global search results. This is no longer possible with version 8.3 which does not include anymore the Standard Interface. I would like to request to make available in 8.3 the opti...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Ability to configure auto retry on scheduler processes

WK import is scheduled to run daily. However, we see a failure in this process on average 1-4 times per month. Each time it fails, we receive an email notifying us of the failure and we have to go in and manually rerun the process. 95% of the time...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 2 Future consideration

Update fields after copying objects

Often times when copying objects there are fields that have to be reset. One example would be updating the status field after copying an object. Another use case would be to update fields after copying templates from the library.
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration UI 5 Functionality already exists