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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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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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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Restore the PAW book/asset/tab name on content switcher navigation drop down that was removed in PAW SC90 update

Previously (until PAW SC90 was released Sep 19, 2023) users were able to navigate easily between books/tabs/assets within an Application or Plan via the Content Switcher Navigation Drop down. This was removed in this release making it more cumbers...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Loss of Functionality in IBM Planning Analytics Excel - Browse function

In TM1 Perspective you are able to initiate a "Browse" (now called "Open in Viewer") at the cube level. in IBM Planning Analytics Excel you cannot, when you right mouse button on the cube in the Task Pane all you get is Refresh. If you scroll down...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Sorting and Hiding control of Alt Hierarchy roots in PAw

We have many Alt Hierarchies we have created (30+ for some dims) But no all users leverage or need everyone. Some are for TI system processes. We wish to be able to hide (by group security) the Alt Hierarchies that users do not need to see. Also...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - Reduced Dimension Element lists when no data

In the workspace, in order to reduce the lists of dimension elements while navigating, it would be useful to get rid of elements that have no data the all dimension selectors, like in Cognos Insight when this one greys out the elements with no data.
almost 9 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Enable the Usage of alt. Hierarchies in SUBNM Formulas

When creating a custom or dynamic report the SUBNM element selection is pretty much the heart of those. Allowing Hierarchies to be used in the SUBNM element selection can drastically enhance the end user experience by tailoring the visible element...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Ability to assign a default tab to open when logging into Web Applications

Currently, when users log into the Web Applications (Contributor applications). the system always opens the tab/worksheet that the user had accessed last during their previous session. This behavior causes significant delays for users, because typ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Full name of elements in legends in Column charts

I am using stacked column chart in PAW. If my elements name is long, it doesn't show the full name, instead it completes the name with a series of dots. Can this feature be added ? Also, I have the user to use acronyms using alias such that the el...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Text cell format in PA Workspace

To optimize the use of automated reports, we need to have the possibility to add comments (text format) using colors or bold fonts for example. Today, we only have the possibility to add black and white comments, with simple fonts. Thank you.
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Needs more information

Custom Schematics and SVG Support in Planning Analytics

We need to expand, beyond the current PAW (v64) offering of visualisations, new customisations for our users. Therefore custom schematics using SVGs is required in PAW for us to drive customised visualisations which would work in our PA environmen...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration