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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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OpenPages Ideas

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Ability to tag a record as a favorite to receive notification when this record is updated

Nowadays, with the current technology, users expect their software to interact with them i.e. the software should 'talk' to the users and should provide information that helps the users perform their daily job. By tagging a specific record as 'fav...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Export Configuration for Role Templates via UI

With OpenPages v7.4 it is now possible to import a Role Template via the "Import Configuration" feature. However to export a single Role Template, the ObjectManager still has to be leveraged (requiring application server access). Being able to sel...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 2 Delivered

Embedded Workflow Validation User Defined Error Message

Embedded Workflow Validation Screen add ability for a user defined error message. Would like to see an option where the person creating the workflow can add either and application text key that will contain the text for the validation error messag...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 2 Delivered

Lack of advanced filter in new UI

The new UI does not include advanced filter. This function is of critical importance to our business users and the filtering available in the new UI is not sufficient for their day to day needs.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 3 Delivered

OpenPages Cloud Pak for Data: Support external Oracle database

Customer deployed OpenPages in docker containers and using an external Oracle Database. They want to move to CP4D but external oracle database is not supported. IBM needs to add support for external oracle database.
11 months ago in OpenPages Ideas 4 Delivered

Export in new UI

The new UI does not have export capability. This function is used by a significant cross section of the business community
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Delivered

Enable bulk update in Task Focused UI Grid Views

The Standard UI offers the ability to bulk update object instances in Filtered List Views or Grid Views. The Grid Views in the Task Focused UI so far are missing this ability.
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 Delivered

Resend workflow notification if assignee gets updated

When the User field that corresponds to the Assignee on a workflow is changed they must use the refresh button (curly arrow) on the workflow to update the Assignee (as advised by support previously). This works as advised and the object then appea...
over 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 3 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...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 5 Delivered

Can't bring existing objects into workflows

We can see how to remove objects from workflows, but there is no way to bring existing objects into their correct workflow in bulk. This is critical to us adopting workflows, because when a user sees a list of tasks they must complete, we must ens...
over 5 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered