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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  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 SMTP notifications Password Risk - Make Encrypted Alternative Available

We wish to set up event notifications in PAW for a client. However, they are not willing to proceed with this because the bootstrap files requires SMTP login and password detials available in clear text. This is represents a major security risk. P...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PA for excel Cells background colors

Cells background colors can be very confusing in PA for Excel . The styles are editable, but there has been no changes to the default. The point is it should be a default style for all users without any modifications
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export/Download PAW book in Excel format

When we export/download any PAW book, we have options like Image, PDF & PowerPoint. We would like to have another option for Excel.
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable maintenance mode with appropriate & consistent messages for users across UI

In PA, there needs to be a feature which stops users from accessing the platform. This can be useful during a security change, data validation, metadata update, save data, bulk upload and many other maintenance related jobs. A maintenance mode is ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to change paper format and orientation for PDF report

PAW should allow end users to control the paper format and orientation of PDF reports. In CA there is an option for end users to choose the paper size and the orientation of the PDF output. IBM should modify PAW to have a similar function.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Workspace Visualization "Repeat (column)" and "Repeat (row)" title formatting

It's not possible in Workspace, when working with a Visualization that offers "Repeat (column)" and "Repeat (row)" to format the title of the various repeated visualizations. Please enable the same consistent set of tools available to format other...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Align PAW roles with PA Subscriptions

Although the documentation states that an Explorer subscription can only be associated with Consumer role in PAW, in fact turning one user's subscription from User to Explorer in Subscription Management portal does not automatically change the rol...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Logo images maintenance within the platform

Rather than have a customer in the IBM PA cloud, scramble round trying to find a robust location for a URL (with jpg extension) that we can use for company logo in reports (generally ends up as a workaround in Box with dummy accounts or something ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Data connections - GCP, Azure, AWS, Snowflake native connectivity

Lots of modern SAAS tools built from the ground up have direct connectors for popular data sources. Might be good to tick a few off that are common. Currently only ODBC and File Transfer (requires a SFTP orchestration tool) exist for PA cloud.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Show Sum of selected cells in PA Workspace status bar (similar to Excel)

select multiple cells in a workspace exploration (e.g. a range via shift+select or individual cells via ctrl-select) and show common statistics of those cells in an info/status bar (similar to Excel), e.g. "Sum", "Average", "Count", "Min", "Max", etc
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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