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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


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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My ideas: Planning Analytics

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Drive Explorer - add disk space available and folder sizes

With the demise of RDP access to the Planning Analytics server and the local File Explorer access imminent, I have been trying to use Drive Explorer to do my usual server activities.I need to duplicate the Data Folder of a PA instance, however I c...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered
252 VOTE

Waterfall chart or Step Chart

Waterfall charts or step charts are a common requirement for Financial Reporting. In Excel the approach is to use transparent colours in a stacked bar chart to build the height required to just show the differences). In the Explorer view a Waterfa...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered

Locking and Unlocking Elements in PAW

I have recently run into an instance at a client where they had inadvertently and accidently locked a specific element of a dimension causing access to be blocked for this element (a version dimension) for all users across the server - in this cas...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Header of rows to appear in tables

It would be more than great to have name of header for the rows to be available in table view. Today it is possible for Attributes. We would like to have the same with Dimension name. Could have a good impact on user acceptance. See screen shot fo...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered
142 VOTE

Multi Select Option for PAW

The current dimension element selector only allow users to select a single element from a dimension but no option to select multiple elements and see aggregated data on the fly. The MDX based calculation(Summerized) option is not as intuitive as a...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Delivered
151 VOTE

Enable numbers to be displayed on graphs (bar, column, line, point , stacked bar, stack column)

Currently numbers are only displayed on bubble charts or slices on the pie chart. This functionality should be extended to add numbers to bar, column, line, point , stacked bar, stack column charts This enhancement needs the option to abbreviate t...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Delivered
133 VOTE

Send Email notification

We should have a send email option available attached with the PA. No need to search any outside VB or JAVA script for the same. better to have a integrated send email option.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered
134 VOTE

Custom Rollups in PAW set editor - used as filters

An important need from customers would be to create custom rollups in PAW.The user would need to pick some elements in the set editor, create a rollup and use it as a filter, either in the selector widget or in a view.
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 15 Delivered

PAW Action Button ability to get parameters from selectors

From the last demonstration that I have seen of 2.0.6 PAW is only able to prompt for parameters to a TI process at the time that you click on the Action Button. This is not how most systems are designed. Users will typically make selections in the...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Delivered
134 VOTE

Custom colors in Planning Analytics Workspace

We would like to have the opportunity to change color palettes and add custom colors to visualizations, text and shapes in Planning Analytics
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered