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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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


Status Delivered
Workspace Product Master
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 15, 2022

Allow for an Administrator to Release an Item where it is currently Reserved by another user.

In a retail environment and focused on Merchandising, we have multiple buying teams with the merchandising co-ordinator factored into the team. The Merchandise Co-ordinator is responsible for inducting and maintaining Product data within the business. In MDM CE (IBM PIM V12) you generally work on the concept of RESERVING the product you are updating. The issue here is if a Merchandise Co-ordinator leaves a product reserved under their account but is not available due to sick, annual or long service leave for example to complete the enrichment or release the product so that another Merchandise Co-ordinator can apply the enrichment on their behalf. We require the ability for the Admin Role in PIM V12 to release a product from a user where the product is currently reserved for update.

Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)