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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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PAX Task Pane Improve Structure

The Task Pane in Planning Analytics for Excel is too busy looking and should be streamlined. It would be nice to group related content into folders - similar to the Applications folder in Perspectives. Currently, users are overwhelmed by the amoun...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Drill Through to Database Table - Excel Export

A Drill-Through in PAW to a database table will open a window where the user can export the data to a CSV file. An English user can open this file with Excel and all columns will end up in the right place. A non-English customer will need to conve...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Change Calendar Format for Action Buttons

In the Action Button parameters for processes, you can now pick a calendar but unfortunatelly, after selection the retrieve of the date is mm/dd/yyyy and we can't change it to a dd/mm/aaaa as it is usual in some countries. The users can get confus...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Ability to schedule the new UX forecast feature

Once a particular forecast is set up, it would be nice to be able to schedule it like a chore.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PLanning Analytics for Excel Interface/ Set Editor Enhancement Requests

1. In Exploration view, there is no way that users can "turn off" the working/refresh of the view they have pulled. Can this be developed similar to the cube view whereby auto-recalculate can be turned off such that users can select their dim elem...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW Upgrade - automate PAW Content upgrade

Each time PAW is upgraded, the content is not upgraded and there is no automated way for a PAW administrator to do it. This seems strange forcing someone to open and save the object to have it upgraded. In some cases, users aren’t allowed to save ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Display Chore status in PAW Task Pane

Using PAW v2.0.43 the status of Chores (enabled or disabled) is not shown in the Chores section of the task pane. I am aware you can tell if they are active by creating a widget or by right clicking them and seeing 'activate/deactivate' from the r...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW View Export To Excel - Dimension Headers Not Applied Correctly

When exporting to excel from a PAW view, if there are multiple dimensions stacked in the columns, you do not get see the dimension name next to the dimension in the column stacked due to the way the export occurs... In prior versions no dimension ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Auto adjust of rows and columns width on enable word wrap

most occasions business wants to review the balances of P&L and want to explain the variances. this becomes extremely difficult in the pre- PAW 79 version as long comments are difficult to view. as PAW 79 has introduced word wrap it is expecte...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Dynamic columns in dynamic reports

Today it is possible to use dynamic reports in Planning Analytics for Excel to create reports with dynamic rows. However it is not possible to also have dynamic columns which I consider to be a major shortcoming, it would be great if this could be...
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration