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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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 Planning Analytics for Excel to work with Chromium browsers

The current version of PAX uses Internet Explorer 11 as its back-end. This browser is no longer being updated or supported by Microsoft soon. Instead, it is being replaced by the chromium-based Edge browser, now standard on most Windows 10 compute...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Hope to expand the width of the menu column on the PAW screen.

Hope to expand the width of the menu column on the PAW screen. The reason is that the current "Name" menu field is so narrow that some names are obscured, making it difficult to use. I would like to widen it.
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 4 Under review

Export a slice to Excel instead of snapshot.

AFAIK the Export to Excel function in PAW creates a snapshot of the Cube Viewer to Excel. Please add the feature to also export a slice to excel. It is possible in Cognos TM1 so I hope it will also be possible in PAW: Cognos TM1: https://www.ibm.c...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Enable maintenance mode with appropriate & consistent messages for users across UI

In PA, there needs to be a feature which stops users from accessing the platform. This can be useful during a security change, data validation, metadata update, save data, bulk upload and many other maintenance related jobs. A maintenance mode is ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Attributes selected in set editor to persist to cube viewer

When working with cubes users often refer to attributes for additional information. Typically a user starts by going into the set editor to create their set, select the required elements or possibly choose another set. They then select attributes ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Logo images maintenance within the platform

Rather than have a customer in the IBM PA cloud, scramble round trying to find a robust location for a URL (with jpg extension) that we can use for company logo in reports (generally ends up as a workaround in Box with dummy accounts or something ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Data connections - GCP, Azure, AWS, Snowflake native connectivity

Lots of modern SAAS tools built from the ground up have direct connectors for popular data sources. Might be good to tick a few off that are common. Currently only ODBC and File Transfer (requires a SFTP orchestration tool) exist for PA cloud.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Show Websheets name in PAW

After insert a Excel Websheet in a PAW Book there is no possibility to see the name of the uploaded excel or the name assigned in architect.
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Identify names of websheets used in Workspaces more easily

tm1 websheets can be used as widgets in workspaces; unfortunately there is no way identifying the name of a websheet that is being used in a workspace report, which often results in lengthy searches through the application folder structure via PAx...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Architect level security setup for cubes, dimensions and any connected object

It would be very helful and userfriendly if the user rights could be populated by dimensions as well. In Architect, if we opened cubes security and set the UserGroup rights for Cube, then the dimensions which contained by the cube also automatical...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration