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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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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:


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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,


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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,

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  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

Planning Analytics Workspace: New/Specific Role for Group/User Management

PAW Administrator role is required to maintain users and groups. PAW Administrator role can stop databases. In our (Takeda) environment) we currently have 53 groups but would have more if above functions can be split. We would prefer to have one r...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

PAW: Dropdown Navigation

Implementing a Dropdown Navigation or expand function would be very useful and space-efficient on the front end. Ie a dropdown displaying a view of action buttons would allow for more user capabilities on the PAW front end.
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add a possibility to set the sender E-Mail for Sharing or Plan Notifications to be not the user who is making the action but a fixed mailbox

Currently PAW uses a method to set the sender of Share Mails or Notification Mails to the Person who was pressing the Button or Shares. This leads to that a configured Mailbox send in the Name of a User. That is per Definition actually Spoofing. A...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

PAW must natively include websheets published via PAfE - just as TM1 Web does.

Idea: Tm1Web-like websheet access has to be available in PAW "Reports and Analysis" section for users with "Consumer" role. TM1 Web enables users to access websheets (which have been published via Planning Analytics for Excel) in a hierarchical fo...
4 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

Sync Scroll in PAW

On cube views that are synced to same group, an option for 'sync scroll' would enable users to scroll on a cube view and another view would also scroll in sync at the same time.
4 days ago in Planning Analytics Future consideration

PAW Column Pin/Freeze in Cube View

The option to pin/freeze a column on a cube view would be useful for data to display on large cube views where the user has to scroll across to see data. Pinning such a view would enable the user to see selected column at al times, whilst seeing t...
8 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

PAFE Native ARM support

Have seen one customer go all in on Windows on ARM, with ARM based Excel using an emulation for intel based code (C/C++), which seems to give issues on and off for Planning Analytics for Excel. But after checking with support, it seems currently u...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Use pinned elements (including conditional formatting) accross workbooks

I is already possible to use a pinned view within the same workbook that also copies conditional formatting. But between workbooks, this is not possible. The pinned element looks like it contains the conditional formatting. When pasting into a new...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable "disk alerts" for Planning Analytics as a Service - like in other PA solutions

We have customers running PAaaS, and have experienced issues with their databases crashing/stopping due to lack of disk space. In PAW - for some reason there is no way to determine why the databases crashes - and further more they can't be started...
9 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Add Face/PIN single Sign On functionality

As the Face/PIN functionalities are part of Windows Hello, and Windows Hello is not supported for Kerberos‑based integrated login in PA users are confused when they try to log using Face/Pin and they cannot log in.
10 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration