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Improve Object Selection Stability in Tree Pane of Planning Analytics Workbench

Dear IBM Support Team, I am submitting this enhancement request to address an inconsistency in the object selection behavior within the Tree Pane of the Planning Analytics Workbench. Currently, selecting and copying object names is unreliable, whi...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Multi-selectors and option to receive synchronization events

Multi-selectors in PAW can only send synchronization events, but cannot receive them. While this works for certain requirements, it presents risks when synchronization is enabled book wide, as illustrated in the example below. It would be helpful ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Add Option to Only Show Selected Databases in the Database Tree

As a developer working daily with IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), I often deal with a large number of database instances — over 50 in our enterprise environment. However, for my daily tasks, I only need access to two specific instances. Cu...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Users to Upload files in Action Button in PAW

In V12.5.0, security changes were made so that non-admin users are no longer able to upload CSV/Files in an action button within the PAW interface. Now only admin users can upload files with a PAW action button. Within out region, we have several ...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Format Manager and consolidated cells

The format manager has a lot of great features that make applying styles to a cube viewer easier. However, a basic need is the ability to change the colour of a cell if the cell is consolidated, this currently is quite difficult to apply and the r...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Add log files to a workbench or open in a new window

When viewing a process error log in a workbench, it opens as a pop out and you can't interact with the workbench. Would be nice to have that pop out as a new window or add a tab to the workbench so the log can be interrogated at the same time as t...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Custom border colour in PAW explorations

Explorations in PAW are pretty customizable and new options seem to be coming to Format manager regularly. However currently it seems the border colour between cells is always light gray and it can't be changed. Since we updated our PAW to a newer...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

PASS - Add feature to hide or disable "Show/Hide sheet format area" icons added with 2.0.96

Giving report consumers the ability to open and see the format area is not desirable in many cases. Complex reports may contain many features to dynamize the report in that area, which can be far beyond what is created by default in Active Forms etc.
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Format Manager and read only vs rule calculated cell formats

The new format manager functionality introduced in version 101/2/3 is great and allows more flexibility on the formatting of read-only and rule-derived cells. Where a cell is rule-derived and read-only, the new behaviour will now format the cell a...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Option to change the default for the Search Scope in Set Editor in PAfE

PAW remembers the last used search scope. In PAfE this is not the case. I would be useful to have this feature in PAfE too. Or an option to the change the default to "search with descendants".
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release