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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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End User UI

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Handling of Duplicate files being uploaded

When a user uploads a file, that already exists in the same folder path, it performs the upload but with the addition of a (1) after the file name. e.g. Singapore Attestation 20181231 if uploaded again would become Singapore Attestation 20181231(1...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

Ability to selectively block add new

On grid views we can only globally enable / disable add new. However Eval records are created by the system (triggers) rather than user entered. By having the add new option showing on the grid view, we risk users trying to manually create them in...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Delivered

New UI - allow dependencies for relationship sections

In the new UI we'd like the ability to set relationship section dependencies like we can set field dependencies. This is so we can remove the ability to associate to incorrect parent objects if particular values are selected in controlling fields.
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Delivered

Updated field (black) asterisk is causing confusion with mandatory field (red asterisk)

Users are familiar with red asterisk = mandatory field. When they see the new black asterisk, they are confusing it with the red mandatory asterisk. Consider whether there is another symbol that could be used that does not cause this confusion
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

Images in Rich Text

Rich Text Editor (CKEditor) doesn't allow images. While using Rich Text editor user should be able to create or paste images, chart and pictures while creating and saving the document
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Clicking on a pie chart segment should take you to a grid view pre-configured to that section

Modern interactive charts typically allow users to drill down into the data based on the selection of the chart the user clicks on. e.g. If I see a chart of Red, Amber and Green issues, then if I click on the red portion of the pie chart, then I w...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

Additional colours on dashboard charts

Subject to the charts remaining in the 8.1 release, we thought the colour ranges available on the charts were quite limited. We do like this feature and would like it retained, but think it could be improved with a few more colours. As an aside, ...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Leverage change history in new UI

Although sensibly de-prioritised, change history is an important future addition to the new UI. This request focuses on how change history could be better presented (the current standard UI change history format is not easy to read). Option 1. ...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 5 Delivered

New UI Dashboard - Ability to display our own Cognos reports

The new UI only allows for 3 out of the box dashboards (My Assignments, Subscriber, Oversight) to be displayed. We want the ability to create our own dashboards using our own Cognos reports. This way we can make sure the dashboards more closely ma...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 7 Delivered

New UI - add basic formatting to Inline Guidance

We'd like the ability to add some basic formatting to the inline guidance to make it more useful. Specifically things like adding carriage returns, adding URLs, adding bold/italics/underline and different coloured text will help emphasize the text...
about 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered