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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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Planning Analytics

Improve configuration guidance and diagnostic feedback for Workflow and Data Accountability

Dear team, Description Current behavior When configuring Data Accountability and Workflow features in Planning Analytics Workspace, several UI actions may remain disabled without providing any explanation to the user. Examples include: Data Acco...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add configurable task locking and plan finalization controls for Planning Analytics Workspace Plans

Dear team, Description Current behavior IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Plans provide workflow capabilities that allow users to complete assigned tasks by entering data and submitting their work. However, after a task has been submitted, administ...
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Option to set explicit numerical column widths in PAW CubeViews (similar to Excel)

Current Behavior: In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), setting column widths in CubeViews relies on manual dragging or auto-fitting content. When placing multiple CubeViews on the same sheet/tab, aligning column widths consistently across all ta...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Option to collapse/hide the tab navigation bar in PAW books

Current Behavior: Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) allows report authors to set the tab navigation bar orientation to top, bottom, left, or right. Positioning the tabs on the left side is ergonomically ideal for navigating books with many sheets...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Improve Dashboard Editing Experience – Persistent Properties, Multi-Select & Format Painter

Dear team, Description Designing dashboards in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace currently requires a large number of repetitive clicks when formatting and configuring multiple widgets. For almost every widget, the workflow is: Select widget Op...
8 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Allow custom display labels / aliases for dimension selector headers in PAW CubeViews

In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) CubeViews, context selector tiles and headers always display the technical name of the underlying TM1 dimension. In many enterprise environments, databases follow strict technical naming conventions. Changing ...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add an overview mode in the Formatting Manager's "Hierarchy" tab (similar to the "Member" tab)

Current Behavior: The Formatting Manager in PAW consists of three tabs: "Display", "Hierarchy" and "Member". In the Member tab, users have access to an overview/summary view that shows all applied member formatings simultaneously in one place. How...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Option to adjust/expand header widths in PAW CubeViews to display full element names

Current Behavior: In CubeViews, long element names or aliases in row and column headers are often truncated (cut off with ellipses) if the default header box/field width is too narrow. While we are aware that hovering over a truncated label displa...
7 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Self-service daily backup status visibility for Planning Analytics Cloud

Hi IBM team, We are looking for IBM to provide a customer-accessible way to confirm daily backup status at the data tier, without having to open a support case. At minimum, administrators should be able to see, per Agent and per TM1 database: last...
11 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Native Hover & Click Feedback for PAW Action Button

User Story As a PAW Modeller, I want the native Action Button properties to be extended with hover and click feedback as defined by the Carbon Design System, so that I can give buttons visual feedback like any other Carbon-conformant IBM applicati...
17 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted