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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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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.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Planning Analytics

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Customization-option of books in PAW

PAW doesn't provide option for books external customization. When we have many books, it is hard to find proper on start page of PAW- all looks like the same. Customers complain about home page of PAW- there is no option to customize nor books ref...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Create a Cell Security Check Function, similar to CellIsUpdatable, but retuning READ/WRITE/NONE based on the client access.

In our models, we allow users to run TI processes to move data from a generic Staging Cube to the final Planning Cubes. The staging cube accepts free text input as the target dimensions which makes harder to implement security directly on that cub...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Allow model_upload folder to be outside of data directory

All files uploaded to PAW to be used as datasources are saved in the data directory in a folder labeled model_upload. We do regular local backups of just our data directories, currently this includes the files in model_upload. If the upload files ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

A process should be able to reference subset in CellGet as a virtual consolidation

It would provide exceptional advantage to be able to reference a subset name in a CellGet function as a virtual consolidation (much in the same way as PAFE creating virtual roll ups). Today in areas such as allocation models that require a total v...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show Process Errors to Non-Admin Users

Logged in as a non-admin user, I run a process which produces minor errors such as: element not found in dimension ItemReject('Message') Missing parameter ODBC connection error but the system doesn't show the errors in the popup window. Only as ...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Suppress Zero on MDX Calculated Members referencing other cubes

Also raised in the community blog. "Please fix zero suppression issue when manually coding the MDX view definition. Currently, if the MDX view uses references to other cubes (e.g. to retrieve Current Month, Current Year, or other control inform...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PAW/CA Canvas grid size improvements

Upon analysis, the current behavior of dashboard is the following. In relative mode, the horizontal fit is constantly activated and we can’t disable it. That’s why the pixel scaling of the grid is always wrong. Once the width or height becomes rel...
almost 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PAx functions that support hierarchies

PAx functions (e.g. DBRWs) currently do not support PAW hierarchies. This limits reporting with PAW hierarchies to PAx/PAW Explorations and Quick Reports. Many reports require the use of Dynamic or Custom reports, which should allow for the use of...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Hierarchies created from attributes by PAW

Hello, Planning Analytics Workspace gives opportunity to create hierarchy using element attributes. Unfortunately this features can be used only for creation two-levels hierarchy. Our customers wants to create multiple level hierarchies using PAW.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

A way to automate user und group management in PAW

Regarding “corporate usability” there should be a way to automate the user und group management in PAW. Regarding the export of this data, please make a trigger available from outside, e.g. via an API or via a shell-script.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists