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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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  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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Ability to set PAW sheet or widget to auto-refresh data periodically

We have received interest in "real-time" capability. While we are able to schedule data processes in the background to simulate real-time data updates, the front-end is a limiting factor in displaying this data. It would be useful to be able to se...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

PA Workspace: Resize and position items using percents or pixels

Currently the size and position of objects in Workspace can only be done by drag and drop, which is not very accurate. This makes it hard to create a uniform appearance. Therefore it would be better to be able to Resize and position items using pi...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Move tabs between books in PAW

Sometimes I create a new book when developing and will get carried away creating something. Then I will realize it makes sense to be in an other work book. But I was shocked to find out I cannot move a tab from one workbook to an other workbook. I...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Partial Refresh for Planning Analytics Excel

Partial book formula report evaluations, at a reduced data tier memory cost. Basically for the "REFRESH SHEET" to only refresh selected sheet and not every other tab that has links to said sheet.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Websheets: Expand/collapse of grouped columns and rows (Excel grouping)

In websheets it would be useful, if the Excel function of grouping columns or rows would be supported in PA Spreadsheet Services. In this case, grouped columns or rows could be expanded and collapsed on demand.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need a hit counter for the PAw reports

We want to know what PAw reports are getting looked at by users. So a Hit count would be very useful to let us know how many persons are using the report
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics For Excel - Self Updateable

The pace at which PAX is updated (roughly once a month) makes it really hard for any large organization to keep it updated. Big organization do not grant users the ability to install software directly and we can't be constantly building scripts fo...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

frozen one-column horizontal scrolling display

Hello, I'd like to know if it's possible to freeze a column (in this case 2024_w) so that when you scroll to the right, you keep the column displayed.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow calculated fields to display in green regardless of READ/WRITE security

Allow calculated fields to display in green regardless of READ/WRITE security. Right now if you only have READ access to the cube, all cells display in grey.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Workspace | Add option to switch between Hierarchies

Dear IBM Ideas, We kindly request the addition of an option that allows users to conveniently switch between Hierarchies in a workspace workbook without requiring them to enter edit mode. Furthermore, we have encountered an issue when editing a di...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration