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


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Platform Features

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FastMap parallelism in uploading data must be managed internally by the product with no actions by the user

Actually if the user wants to upload data files in parallel he has to start multiple uploads instances. The request is that the product takes one data file prepared by the user, and manages the parallelism internally, starting more threads so gett...
3 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Direct folder creation feature

Direct folder creation feature should be added back
7 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Not under consideration

Support non open source anti-virus software for the scanning of files.

In OpenPages® 8.3.0.1 and later releases, you can use Clam AntiVirus (ClamAV) to scan files for viruses and malware before the files are imported into OpenPages. Files that fail the scan are not uploaded. ClamAV is an open source, cross-platform, ...
12 months ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Allow Creation Date as a 'Due Date' field argument (with offset) for Workflows

Currently if workflow instances are started and stopped (to do required tasks such as workflow version upgrades/releases) the due dates are all reset. Currently you can only use 'Workflow Start Date' which would reset or a field. You cannot lock i...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Ability to pull Cognos report relating to specific object when in the object

When viewing a LossEvent for example, would it be possible to add an extract functionality so that we can pull a particular report pointing to that LossEvent reference and data directly from OpenPages. We have a 'Single Event Summary' report that ...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Functionality already exists

Static link to an object in OpenPages should open in a tab in the same browser window, not launch a new window

If a user adds a Dashboard panel with a static link to an object within OpenPages that they have access to in their current profile, the view for the object should open up as a tab in the same browser window, not launch a new separate window.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Add File deletion policy

Add File deletion policy , so that after a certain time (7 years) , the system will auto delete the files.
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Allow opening Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages when the Protocol is https

Opening Microsoft Office files directly from OpenPages is very useful for the user to avoid downloading files for updating. In some installations, for security reasons, it is mandatory to implement the https protocol, which is currently not compa...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Functionality already exists

Vertical bar to indicate milestones on Gant Charts

The Gant chart visualization could be enhanced to include the option to mark key milestones as vertical bars on the chart.
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Not under consideration

Granting Navigational Access instead of full Read access to Business Entities above Security Context Point

Consider the below Business Entity hierarchy: Level 0 BE -> Level 1 BE -> Level 2 BE -> Level 3 BE If a users security context point is /Level 0 BE/Level 1 BE/Level 2 BE/Level 3 BE, then the user can still access the details of all the to...
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Not under consideration