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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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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.

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Planning Analytics

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PAW navigation button improvement

We propose to improve the function of the navigation button. Currently in the application, if the book contains a navigation button that opens another book in the same application, after clicking on the button another book is opened only separatel...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

PAW: drill-through view doesn't allow Set Editor to be used

We created drill-through processes, rules and views to allow users to drill to another view. We found that such drill-through views which are opened as a result of a drill action, do not allow user to open Set Editor in the dimensions of the view....
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future 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 ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 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...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Component list for grouped elements in PAW

As a user I would like to see a component list of grouped elements. This helps me to navigate to the element I would like to change the properties for. Example: I have grouped a view and a text and a button. Now I would like to go to the propertie...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information

PAfE to track PA-enabled Excel spreadsheets only

Threads/TM1top/The Session Monitor displays the PAfE version, Excel version, Excel workbook name, and Excel sheet/tab name of the current Excel workbook open by the user. Instead of displaying any Excel workbook open by the user, I believe it woul...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

A process should be able to reference subset in CellGet as a virtual consolidation

It would provide exceptional advantage to be able to reference a subset name in a CellGet function as a virtual consolidation (much in the same way as PAFE creating virtual roll ups). Today in areas such as allocation models that require a total v...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show Process Errors to Non-Admin Users

Logged in as a non-admin user, I run a process which produces minor errors such as: element not found in dimension ItemReject('Message') Missing parameter ODBC connection error but the system doesn't show the errors in the popup window. Only as ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

PAx functions that support hierarchies

PAx functions (e.g. DBRWs) currently do not support PAW hierarchies. This limits reporting with PAW hierarchies to PAx/PAW Explorations and Quick Reports. Many reports require the use of Dynamic or Custom reports, which should allow for the use of...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

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...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration