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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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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.

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Format Manager and read only vs rule calculated cell formats

The new format manager functionality introduced in version 101/2/3 is great and allows more flexibility on the formatting of read-only and rule-derived cells. Where a cell is rule-derived and read-only, the new behaviour will now format the cell a...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Planned for future release

Sum row in PAfE

A totals line is desired in the exploration in PAfE. Currently, only totals columns are possible.
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Alluvial chart as visualization in PAW

Make alluvial visualization type available as seen in Carbon Charts: https://carbondesignsystem.com/data-visualization/complex-charts/#alluvialsankey-diagrams This is a current customer requirement to visualize data flow between elements.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Column and Row scroll synchronization

When there is more than one view on a PAW sheet, and either the rows or columns extend beyond the visible screen area for both views, it would be common for users to want both views to scroll simultaneously. For example, let’s say both views have ...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Aliases and Attributes to be available in the cube viewer

In some models we have various Aliases to cater to 3rd party system naming or alternate product codes. Clients want to see the principal name/description based on a selected alias but also want to add an additional Alias(es) to see an alternate na...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Revert Tooltip behaviour in PAW to display attribute name in cell instead of its element name

In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) version 2.1.9 and later, when you hover over a row or column header (including attribute headers), the tooltip no longer shows just the attribute name as it did in version 2.1.4. Instead, it now displays the e...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics for Excel: Ability to minimize/maximize the Viewer independently

When you open Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel, the viewer is connected to this Excel session only. When you minimize Excel, you also minimize the Viewer window and you are unable to access it without maximizing Excel. Same problem happens w...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support legacy application types in PAx

Application folders are not only used for Excel sheets which is the only supported file type in PAx as of v32. Applications are used to:- Consolidate TI processes (for admin and business users)- Link to views in control cubes for metadata review, ...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PA: Usage metrics of PAX & PAW by users or workbooks

PAX & PAW is a going to the primary interface promoted by IBM, but there is no tracking available in identify whether a user is using PAX or PAW. There are few stats cubes available to capture metrics, but there is nothing available for these ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Jump between the variables / parameters at Variables / parameter section in a TI to define the names with arrow buttons

Dear Sirs, in PAW, doesnt matter what version, 2.0 or 2.1, it is not possible to use the arrow buttons to jump between the variable or parameter fields to update the names. It means, you have to go with your cursor to the specified field to define...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted