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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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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:


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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,


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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


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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.

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


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Platform Features

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URL type field should have ability to enter multiple links or Hypertext Links in the Text fields should showcase as URL's.

In the URL type field, currently we have ability to only add only one Http URL link. Our business requires the ability to add multiple links. When we tried to use Text fields(Text Box or Text Area) , the links are just displaying as normal strings...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

OpenPages Support on WebSphere Base Edition

Westpac has rolled out new HPaaS infrastructure (private offsite cloud infrastructure using softlayer). HPaaS platform is fully DevOps enabled with end to end automation. In HPaaS, WebSphere Base Edition is the standard offering where as WebSphere...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Direct folder creation feature

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

Log on object lock and unlock

Implementation of object lock and unlock log in OpenPages
almost 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 7 Not under consideration

Terminate Workflow Instance from Another Workflow

It would be useful to be able to terminate a workflow instance from another workflow. Currently, it is possible to start a workflow for a record, but only if it has not been enrolled already. As an example, when a record is "in review" status, the...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Create a numerical drop down field.

Can we create the ability to have a enumerated field where the options are considered a number? This causes us issues where we use the chart functionality on the dashboard or try to sort on Cognos as the numbers are stored as text. We would like t...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Future consideration

Object Manager - Workflow Migration automation

Needing to update the XML files directly for environment values and variables when migrating from one environment to another can result in errors. Either due to missed updates, mistyping of values, or invalid changes being made and missed.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Customizing Security Rules Error Messages

When Security Rule triggers an error because user unable to complete a task, such as udpate object, the error produced is a hardcoded message. It not even customizeable in Application Text. Since Security Rules are very specific to the implementat...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

Need for multi-dimensional security model

OpenPages currently only has a single dimensional security based on the Business Entity (or Process, etc) structure for a single hierarchy. For HSBC the business requirement is to secure data in a multiple dimensions. HSBC wants to secure instance...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Not under consideration

User is not able to search new object

User is not able to search new created object, Steps to recreate are attached as mail from business user
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Is a defect