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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI 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,

  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

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PAW/CA Canvas grid size improvements

Upon analysis, the current behavior of dashboard is the following. In relative mode, the horizontal fit is constantly activated and we can’t disable it. That’s why the pixel scaling of the grid is always wrong. Once the width or height becomes rel...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Create a Cell Security Check Function, similar to CellIsUpdatable, but retuning READ/WRITE/NONE based on the client access.

In our models, we allow users to run TI processes to move data from a generic Staging Cube to the final Planning Cubes. The staging cube accepts free text input as the target dimensions which makes harder to implement security directly on that cub...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW: Filter each column

Our user would like to filter each column like in excel filter.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Not under consideration

Design canvas features for PAW sheets

At present, Planning Analytics Workspace allows the user to include design elements, such as images and videos, in reports, but the lack of several basic features of common design tools like Adobe Illustrator make it unwieldy to create highly-desi...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

A clean Environments selector list for IBM cloud environments

Hello, Every single day I need to select multiple environments from the IBM PA Home page (https://www.planning-analytics.ibmcloud.com/). My list is such that there are almost 20 environments, and it will only grow. In a support ticket (TS014673742...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow model_upload folder to be outside of data directory

All files uploaded to PAW to be used as datasources are saved in the data directory in a folder labeled model_upload. We do regular local backups of just our data directories, currently this includes the files in model_upload. If the upload files ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAx needs options to set Auto Calc in Excel to Manual

When pulling up a sheet with multiple tabs of DBRW formulas it is often not the best thing when Excel will Autocalc it on load. Better that the user have an options of setting Auto Calc off or on for Excel by default. Yes this is an Excel Microsof...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Expand Conditional Formatting option in PAW

Currently PAW condition formatting only allows for the following 5 conditions: - Equals- Contains- Starts with- Ends with- Is empty We would like to see this extended to include at least the following additional options:- Does not equal - Does not...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Customization-option of books in PAW

PAW doesn't provide option for books external customization. When we have many books, it is hard to find proper on start page of PAW- all looks like the same. Customers complain about home page of PAW- there is no option to customize nor books ref...
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics for Excel - Enable Application URL links to work

Application URL references are created as follows: In the Server Explorer, right-click the Application to which you want to add the URL reference, and click Add URL on the shortcut menu, and enter URL (for example: http://www.Company.com). And the...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration