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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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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.

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Planning Analytics

Show all context dimensions when clicking More Context Dimensions in PAFE cube viewer rather than one with vertical scroll bar

The PAFE cube viewer currently does not show all hidden context dimensions when clicking 'More Context Dimensions' (black box with three dots in the top right). This behaviour is different to PAW. Instead it displays only one dimension with a vert...
2 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

User downloading a file

I am wondering what the possibilities are to allow a user to download a file, that is created by the TM1 server. The use case we have is as follows, but the idea goes broader than only this use case we think. We have a PAW Application. The user ha...
3 days ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

Backup capability for additional PAW front-end components via API to complete a full recovery set when added to back-end database backup

Currently, nightly backups of the TM1 database are scheduled in PA and can be downloaded. An enhancement is expected to be delivered toward the end of 2026 to extend this and enable an API interface so that further automation can be achieved to me...
19 days ago in Planning Analytics

Universal Report: persist formatting cache with workbook

When opening a saved Universal report, all rows are initially classified as Leaf. After rebuild, rows get correctly classified. This is a request to have formatting cache persist with workbook so rows are classified correctly upon initial opening.
22 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

PAW Workbench search functionality is limited: multiple extensions that will help users on a day to day basis

When using the PAW Workbench Search functionality there are 2 options: search for text in code of processes and rules, and search for text in object names. It seems that for both options there is a fixed and hardcoded limit of 60 search results. T...
14 days ago in Planning Analytics Submitted

Enable reliable cross-dimensional MDX context propagation in PAW selectors and subset editor (dependent / cascading selectors)

Dear team, Description: In IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW), dynamic MDX expressions that rely on CURRENTMEMBER, PROPERTIES, or attribute-/hierarchy-driven logic from another dimension work correctly in Cube Views, but behave inconsistently ...
23 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 ...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics Planned for future release

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...
about 1 month 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...
2 months 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...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics Not under consideration