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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:


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,


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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


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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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Allow Status Updates on Homepage

The user community has asked that we display a message somewhere on our homepage to reflect the datetime of when data was last pulled from our ERP system. We have the datetime available in a cube already. I would like to display that on the homepa...
almost 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Planned for future release

Support ODBC to SQL Synapse

Today PA does not support an ODBC connection to a SQL Synapse database. This is a major shortcoming since this is a widely used database that is becoming more and more popular.
about 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Migration Capability in Lifecycle Manager across different PAW environment

Currently in PAW Version 30; there is no way to setup mapping between across instances hosted on two different PAW environments (Say DEV and QA) in Lifecycle manager. The only way to migrate objects is to export from the source and import it in ta...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Allow non Admin users to Publish to PAw

I have a report writing team that is creating and updating reports for PAw that are PAx based. They are not Admins, so they have to get an Admin to publish for them when they want to update a report. This is slowing things down. We need the abilit...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Planning Analyctics - Workbook and Tab recalc on activation

When navigating using a button widget from a PA Workbook or Workbook Tab to another Workbook or Tab, the activated target does not recalc.
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Customize in PAW the “Accept Invitation - IBM Planning Analytics Enterprise XXXX Account” emails

System : Planning Analytics WorkspaceActor : Administrators We would like to be able to customize the email that is sent when users are invited to Planning Analytics Workspace by administrators. Currently the email is as below: Subject : Accept In...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Formats should be Saved with Views

Currently when a user saves an MDX View from the cube viewer in Pafe the format state is not saved with the view. Formats should be saved with the view, they represent a fundamental part of the viewing experience. All users would benefit from this...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Encrypt SSL Private key for Planning Analytics Workspace and store it secured

After configured SSL for PAW using this document:https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSD29G_2.0.0/com.ibm.swg.ba.cognos.tm1_inst.2.0.0.doc/t_paw_enable_ssl.html It's working fine, however, the private key (inside pa-workspace.pem file) ...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

API to automate workspace user management in PA SaaS (could be useful on-prem too)

With large systems containing many users it would save a lot of time if there was an official API that can be used to automate the addition invited users into PA Workspace (SaaS) as well as access levels rather than having to do it manually. This ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PAW Default Sorting

In PAW, the objects on the main page are by default set to sort by last modified. When you have dozens of objects, it can be hard to find the object you are looking for. Can a user change their individual default to be soft by name? At the moment,...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration