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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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,


Post your ideas

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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Use server formatting in PAfE not only for QuickReports but for all Reports

Dear Sirs, we would like to use the server formatting not only for the Quick Reports as it is now the case, but also for the other report types. For now it is not possible, unfortunately, so you have to create / to prepare the same formatting that...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Submitted

PAW - Add freeze panes in views

It would be very useful to have 2 additional properties in the views allowing to set up freeze panes similar to excel. It would thus be possible to set the number of rows and the number of columns to freeze. Example : Number of rows to freeze = 0 ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Set a company-wide default Global Color Palette for all new Books and Visualizations in Planning Analytics Workspace

Dear team, Administrators can create and publish global color palettes (Administration → Excel and Customizations → Palettes → Add global palette). These palettes are then available to all users and can be selected manually. Current limitation: Th...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow customization of displayed content in inline dimension selectors (Subsets / Levels / Elements)

Dear team, Idea Description: In PAW Explorations and Cube Views, the content shown in inline dimension selectors currently depends on the placement of the dimension and offers almost no configuration options: When the dimension is placed in the ...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Set Synchronisation Group by hierarchy

Currently, Visualisations in PAW are attached to 1 synchronisation group This means that if you want to have 2 visualisations which are synched to the same sheet level selectors, except for 1 hierarchy where you want to used separate visualisation...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PAW notification for outage, change etc.

Currently, there no way to notify users on PAW interface itself. There are many tools which show yellow notification bar with important messages such as outages, timelines etc. Something like this on PAW interface could be of great help. This feat...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Planned for future release

}ApplicationSecurity blank means NONE

At the moment, }CubeSecurity, }DimensionSecurity, }ElementSecurity_XXX, and even }CellSecurity, blank is NONE, or no access. However, for }ApplicationSecurity, it is requiring administrator to populate NONE in order to make the application no acce...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Not under consideration

Function to Schedule the Restart of a TM1 Server

Currently need to manually intervene when restarting a TM1 Server. On prem we could interact with the service and restart. Would like a feature so this restart can be scheduled during quiet times. Possibly use Cognos Command Centre? We have an IBM...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Allow PA Admins to customize the queried file path of PA Agent's Explain Cell, rather than use the default LOGS folder path

Our PA Admin team prefers to move old Transaction Log files to a subfolder within the LOGS directory. In order for PA Agent's "Explain Cell" functionality to work, it needs all Transaction Logs to be located in the default set up file path. This E...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Hide the levels in the Cube Viewer in PAfE

If you have opened a cube in PAfE, you can also see the level in the objects. We currently have a lot of levels, some of which are not well structured. Is it possible to hide the levels when you open them?
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Under review