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Planning Analytics

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Do not Add the Planning Analytics COM Addin to MS Word

When we install Planning Analytics for Excel, 2 Excel Addin and 1 COM addin are added to Excel However the COM Addin "IBM Framework for Office" is also added to Word Users are facing various problems in Word because of this Addin. Performance issu...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Granting book/folder permission on PAW in bulk.

Unfortunately there is no functionality or current workarounds to grant permission to the book(s)/folder(s) in PAW Local(release 27) for a bulk set of users.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

When grid values are shown as percentages. Compute variances by subtracting the percentage rather than underlying number.

We would like to be able to use the base functionality of showing values of a cube view as percentages and subsequently correctly calculate a variance between those percentages.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Performance issues when trying to open menu-window by right clicking

We noticed that trying to open the menu-window by right clicking for example on the table shown in attached pictures, the system takes a long time to show the menu-window. Looking for the root cause, during our tests we monitored the performances ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Startup Chore respect MTQ setting

The processes called from a Startup Chore do not respect the MTQ setting, i.e., it only uses one CPU. When the startup chore calls a process to execute a ViewConstruct, using multiple CPUs is very desirable.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Excel formatting - apply formatting to new data range as it grows in size

Excel formatting - apply formatting to new data range as it grows in size. e.g. If the data range is 2x2 cells and then an action (e.g. stacking dims on rows/ columns or drilling into a consolidation) increases the data range szie, provided the fo...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Limit dimensionality of annotation cube to only relevant dimensions

Exactly the same as for cell security cubes it should be possible to create cell annotation cubes with only the dimensions defined by the modeler as relevant for commentary. This woudl make annotating cells much more prwerful and easuer for users ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Export to Excel - Customize Workbook Name

Exporting a view from a paw book to excel will default to the view name used to create the report, however there are many times which a user will start with a different report as their basis for creating a new PAW book. Since the view that was use...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Custom Reports formatting to be retained when created from Exploration

Custom reports allow for complete formatting control by the user using standard Excel functionality., BUT there is currently no seeding of the formatting from the originating exploration view. Workaround is not satisfactory - copy/paste formatting...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Feature of memory consumption on PAW after re-ordering of dimensions

We looking for the feature in PAW, which shows the memory (RAM) consumption when changing internal dimension-order-structure. It doesn't show the memory-consumption before and has no Test-button like Architect/Perspectives have currently. Please g...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration