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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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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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High Availability(HA)/Failover for Planning Analytics Server (data model).

There is no functionality or settings in the Planning Analytics data server that must be configured to allow HA or Failover to work.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Planning Analytics Workspace Calculation Formatting

Need to be able to format calculated values in PAW. Like, set number of decimals, thousand separator, etc
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Ability to configure border on columns/row headers in PAW view

In the visualization properties you can configure row/column headers as to text color, background color and font face.It would be nice to also be able to set a border + colour around each header cell
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

SFTP External locations for IBM PA Cloud

Currently for File transfer - you can export to a IBM PA Cloud folder, then you get a 3rd party tool to orchestrate the SFTP file transfer to another locations. Would be good if we can call out locations (still secure) that we can target, saving t...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

PAx : Get current connection string to ease promotion of Quick Report from one environment to an other one

In Planning Analytics for Excel, a Quick Report that have been created is linked to the environment (eg Development) where it has been developed through a connection string.To promote an Excel workbook into an other environment, the workbook must ...
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Alternate Hierarchy Limitation: Is there plan to enhance report building and performance when it comes to using alt. hier in PAX?

Currently, only limited to Quick & Exploration. Although Quick is considered as static, it breaks when there are changes to any dimensions and/or alternate hierarchies. This is so frustrating to users. Is there an alternate for using alternate...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Auto-start toggle for TM1 databases on IBM PA on Cloud

We have several TM1 databases on PA Cloud (hosted by IBM). When there is maintenance and the data tier is restarted, all TM1 databases start up. Would recommend adding an auto-start toggle on each TM1 database such that sandboxes don't need to a...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Support Planning Analytics Workspace on Kubernetes

On a private cloud installation (on premises) we would like to run PAW container in a kubernetes environment instead of a dedicated Linux server. It provides a more reliable governed infrastructure for microservice architecture.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Can't easily select summaries only in a hierarchy

With the new IBM PA Edit Set, it only allows us to keep or choose Leaf Level with the Attributes and Selector tools. If we could even just have “<>” as the choice for the Level tool, we could get back missing function.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Scaling options in PAW to allow for monitors of different resolution

We require a way to scale the viewing pane to be in proportion the the screen size, or preferably, make it so the viewing pane is the same size of the view, and only populate the screen with the number of rows that fit at viewing pane. At present ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Delivered