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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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 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...
8 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

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...
8 days ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

Speed up and align view exports

Dear development team, we observed for big views that the exports via in-built solutions such like - PAW "Import/Export"-->"Export data" - "Export"-button in PAW Cube-viewer - "Export"-button in UI API Cube-viewer are by far(!) slower than expo...
39 minutes ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Text String Edit Ability

The ability to edit a text string instead of having to overwrite the entire text. In perspectives this was an ability by using F2 + F9 then amending the text within the cell.
about 18 hours ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Customizing the IBM Planning Analytics Workspace login page

Good morning, at Deutsche Bahn, various applications are made available centrally via short links. This allows end users to quickly and intuitively find their applications, for example as follows: https://db.de/office https://db.de/paw The w...
27 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

“Add Spacer” with MDX parameters in asymmetric views

Addition of spacers with stacked columns / rows using MDX Global Parameters in asymmetric views When 2 dimensions or more are stacked in asymmetric views, spacers addition is not working properly when MDX Global Variables are used. Reproduction st...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

MDX Snippets to be supported

Just like with TI Snippets, developers often times have a repository of MDX snippets that they use when building sets and views. Being able to upload these snippets and use them in a similar fashion to TI snippets would be very useful.
26 days ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration

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...
6 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.
7 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...
13 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted