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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 - Share private subsets between users

(See attached file for more information) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, End-users use private subsets all the time. For example, they track the progress of their top products by saving them int...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - "Remove" calculation in set editor should remove calculation from the query and not only from the current set

(See attached file for more details) Idea Details: Use a real-life scenario to explain the problem statement/pain points, End-users create calculation all the time in PAW views. When they don’t use it anymore, they simply remove the calculation fr...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAW - Store user defined calculation

End-users create calculation all the time in PAW views. However, they have no way to save these calculations in case they want to use it in another view. There’s no workaround, they have to re-create the calculation every time they need it. I've a...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 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

Set Editor Drill to Leaves on Selected Side Or Right click

In predecessor to Planning Analytics for Excel (CAFE), you could "Insert Member with Inputs" from the selected side of the set editor. In PAX, you can do this from the available side but requires you to sift through members first. Cube Viewer does...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

grant Modeler accounts READ only access to PAA Portal

grant Modeler accounts READ only access to PAA Portal. currently only PAw Admins can access the PAA Portal, but our Modeler users would like to have READ only access so that they can monitor server performance and threads that are running on their...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

New feature to disable rules during data load process

Pain Point: P&L cube does allocations by rule. During data load of 1 million cells, the allocation N: only rules and N: & C: feeders fire for each cell causing unacceptably long load durations.. Workaround: Even splitting the load process ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

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

Book/report level expressions for PAW

It would open a lot of development opportunities if we could have book/report level expressions in PAW. By this I mean having calculations/query running only at the report/book level and not necessarily in a cube/dimension. What I'm looking for is...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Allow http links to be used within PAW for on premise (local) installations

Currently the widgets for adding images/media/webpages within a book within PAW are restricted to https links. If http is used an error is displayed, the web page must be accessed using an https link. Whilst this may be fine for a cloud based envi...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration