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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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Display Name on Actual @Mention Comment

When adding a comment mention you can search by First Name Last Name/Display Name. When the comment is actually logged, it defaults to UserName which in a lot of orgs is a userID/ alphanum string. This makes it difficult to remember who you're col...
20 days ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Functionality already exists

Ability to extend metadata for Users

We require the ability to add meta data to the user within OpenPages. Currently we are limited to First name, Last Name , email and Description. It would be valuable for us to be able to extend to items like Dept , Location etc. This would be data...
almost 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Administration 1 Under review

Provide export functionality to select other user info to be displayed in export, for example, to show email address or first name and last name instead UserID?

Business users will be able to identify quickly an easily who are the owner, assignee or user that has an specific role just into the record export. In this moment are able to see the user name (UserID) only, so a user should investigate the first...
about 1 year ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 1 Under review

Calculation Function: Dedup or non-invasive REMOVE for lists

When trying to write out a function, we keep running into a situation as we get deeper into the hierarchy, and information is pulled from ancestors we keep having occasional duplicate values that might form a list. There are no functions or method...
almost 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Automation 3 Future consideration

In grid view user can not filter top 100 or 200 record (for a field value or a date filed)

In object type with a lot of records, it's possibile to create personal and public filters BUT it's not possibile to filter a number or records (example top 100, top 200) order by a value (loss value or by a date (for example creation date or last...
about 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 1 Future consideration

Sync up user's name properly between CPD and OpenPages

Per IBM the CP4D user job replaces openpages first name with full name. Full name is imported to openpages from “Name” tab of CP4D – which are LDAP names imported from LDAP server. Below are the current LDAP attribute mapping, can you let us know ...
over 2 years ago in OpenPages Ideas 3 Delivered

Clone a USER Profile

Oftentimes, we get a request that says "please create a new user and provide him with the same access rights/roles/permissions as user X". It would be great if you could clone a user profile, so that you can still enter a new ID, first name, last ...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / Platform Features 0 Delivered

User search issue with ability to search with first name and last name in 7.1 version of OpenPages

There is no way to simplify the search for users. Common first name and last names could present a user with a large list to find the right person. Users are not able to find the right user as there is no option to search using both first name and...
over 6 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 0 Delivered

Improve search function Name - with double spacing

Names with two or more words and double space between them will in not be visible on the screen, one would have to export to Excel to see the extra space. In our case we have a lot of Names similar to each other, and searching for only first or la...
over 3 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration

Sort order in association grid selector should reflect the visible columns

We noticed when we configure the "Associate" button on an object grid in a task view, the default sort order of the grid results are on System Fields.Name, even if that field is not visible in the grid. IBM support confirmed that this is working a...
about 4 years ago in OpenPages Ideas / End User UI 2 Future consideration