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

OpenPages Ideas

Showing 235

Microsoft Excel Integration Version

The export functionality in OpenPages is to a Microsoft Excel .xls which limits the content to be within 255 columns and ~65000 rows. For objects with large data counts as well as a large number of fields this limits the ability to seamlessly extr...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Integration & Risk API 1 Delivered

Customizing workflow email notifications

To include the module name in the subject line of IBM OpenPages workflow email notifications' of assignee or subscriber, so the user knows which solution requires action without launching the link in the body of the notification. There are no syst...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Other 2 Delivered

Allow different Creation View based on both Profile as well as other criteria like parent object type

Right now we have the ability to define separate Creation views for different profiles. However, we see a need for more flexibility within a given profile. For example, when we have an object type that can be added as a child under multiple parent...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Enable XLSX format for FastMap Export

FastMap supports XLSX format for importing data, but export currently only supports XLS format. Customers are starting to deprecate XLS, and need a way to also configure the OpenPages export to use XLSX format. Alternatively they need to disable t...
over 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 5 Delivered

Address Session timeouts so that users have opportunity to save their work

We have found that a user session usually timeout around 1 to 2 hours. The user is given a dialog to either logout or continue working. If continue working is selected, the session still timeouts and our security engineers have lost hours of work....
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Delivered

Enhance Filters to support empty and not empty

It would be useful for User fields and Date fields to support the empty and not empty options on filter in the UI. This could also apply to other fields as well. There are a lot of times when filtering you want to be able to search not on a specif...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 6 Delivered

OpenPages - KRI - Trend Calculation for Child Values

We have a requirement to calculate KRI Trend for each child (KRI Val) by comparing its value with other KRI Child and calculate its trend. For this purpose we need to create a calculation at KRI Value object but we require to inputs fields from si...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 2 Delivered

Custom Message for Workflow Validations

When having validations via the workflow, the error messages are fairly standard and depending on the naming of the field may not really describe what the user needs to do to fix the problem. It would be useful to have custom validation messages p...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 5 Delivered

Preserve Ad hoc (unsaved) filters while the Grid view is still open

Users report frustration that in the TFUI, on a main FLV Grid, when they create an adhoc filter and apply it without specifying a name for the filter, it applies to the grid (showing "Unsaved filter" being applied). If user clicks on one of the gr...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 4 Delivered

Bulk Update: Order of questions to follow order in questionnaire and follow dependencies

questions listed in alphabetical order, is it possible to list them in the order they are asked? Also-I remember during show&tell, all dependencies on the questions were available on bulk update as well, you could not select an answer for a de...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered