Skip to Main Content
IBM Sustainability Software - Ideas Portal


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against the products and services belonging to IBM Sustainability Software. 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
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


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.

Status Needs more information
Categories Base Platform
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 6, 2025

Expand the maximum number of characters allowed for text fields in accounts.

Some indicators require considerable space for users to explain the specific details of their performance. Therefore, the current 2,000-character limit seems insufficient, as it may lead to the loss of important information.

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
  • Guest
    Nov 14, 2025

    Could the additional details be uploaded to the account as an attachment or add hyperlink support within the description that can point to a corporate repository with all the deails.  Bonus points if the hyperlink can be made active in power BI reports when displayed on screen or exported!

  • Admin
    Stephen Foster
    Oct 13, 2025

    Thanks for your idea. Can you provide more detail on the use case? Can you give examples of fields defined in the account style that could require more than 2000 characters?

    I would also be interested to know how this data is used once captured in an account? What is the data flow from that point onwards for your reporting?

    Thanks

    Steve

  • Guest
    Oct 7, 2025

    It would be important for the connector itself to automatically truncate any text field exceeding 2,000 characters (using a substring function) so that a single long field does not prevent the entire connector from loading successfully.