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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).


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

Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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.

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.

IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com



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Planning Analytics

PAW Books: Set canvas size per page

Currently the only way to set the canvas size is per book. We have large books where some pages are short, and others long. We would ideally like to see the ability to set this size per page rather than per book.
1 day ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Allow deletion of sandbox through TI in same session as it was created

Currently after creating a sandbox, you must log out and then back in before you can delete it through TI, otherwise this is returned: SandboxGlobalAdmin::RunOperation: 'Delete' Sandbox '<SANDBOX>' matches criteria, but is currently in-use. ...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Title: Support MDX-Based Default Member Selection with Book Synchronization in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW)

Problem Statement / Real-Life Scenario: Our organization uses role-based reporting in PAW, where each user is automatically assigned a default Entity through a lookup cube based on TI process. The Entity selector is driven by an MDX subset that dy...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Planning Analytics File manager improvements - File handling for normal users

Getting files in and out of Planning Analytics (PA) as an end user is, in its current form, not good enough. Exporting and importing text files might seem very old-school to tech people and not something you would typically do. However, for a cont...
5 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Support adding dimensions to cubes (default member behavior)

Adding a new dimension to an existing cube introduces a structural change to the cube. As a consequence, all existing reports (PAfE, views, MDX queries, etc.) that reference the cube become invalid and require manual adjustment.We understand that ...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Process Error Details in PAFE

Users of Planning Analytics for Excel often run processes either from action buttons or from the Task Pane tree. However, if a process results in an error message, there is no details provided in UI (Perspectives did provide this transparency). To...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Improvement for MDX Cleanup Utility

Final users have reported that when they delete a root several reports break, even if the root was not being displayed in the report but it was used to create the selection. Reference like this remains: [Root1^Leave1] It would be great if the MDX ...
11 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Planning Analytics 3.1 - Add parameter "domain_hint" to OIDC configuration to allow automatic login

At Deutsche Bahn, we use a standard service called DB WEB SSO for OIDC. Essentially, this is Azure EntraID, although most settings are predefined by the service, leaving us with limited configuration options. In our case, the optional domain_hint ...
18 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Planning Analytics for Excel (PAFE): Hide PAFE Panel configurable via setting

In a use case scenario when PAFE is used for end users who are only consuming Tm1 sheets in excel the PAFE panel on the right hand side might be confusing and not necessary for the report consumption. It consumes space and must be disabled /hidden...
19 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable to export new workbook in viewer

In excel, when you export a view to a spreadsheet, it asks for if we want this on the current workbook or in a new workbook. However, if we did the same task in the viewer, it defaults to current workbook and new sheet. It doesn't give the same op...
19 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted