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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,


Post your ideas

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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Type of charts/color palettes to show only incremental data in PAW

Hello, Color palettes for charts is insufficient. There is only 8 kind of palettes. And we have no option to show only increase value (please, find attached file). In PAW we don't have this type of chart so we try to modify color palette to get re...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

SetUseActiveSandboxProperty should persist for Process and any child processes

Just like the way Temporary views and subsets now works where the objects persist until the end of the process chain/transaction, setting SetUseActiveSandboxProperty(1) in the parent should keep this enabled through all child processes. When runni...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics - non-administrator publishing

This would allow non-administrators more flexibility when it comes to publishing PAFE reports to PAW without having to involved a adminstrator.
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Functionality already exists

I want to enable to specify default sort order for books and folders on Workspace.

I want to enable to specify default sort order for books and folders on Workspace. Currently we can't set default sort order method, so is not convenient. We want to set sort order by specifying the name and update date.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Access applications in task pane instead of PAx ribbon

In Perspectives, applications are accessed through Server Explorer yet in PAx applications are accessed through the ribbon. Not only does this move impact the expected user experience for Perspective converters, but also creates many more clicks t...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Access Detail > Allow to open an MDX View

It would be nice if drill through could authorized to open an MDX View (with Hierarchies and attributes directly shown)
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Support data entry shortcuts in PAx Reports

PAx has the ability to support Expansions via JSON expressions to define macros for data entry (ex: 5k is translated to 5,000), but these macros are only available for data entry directly in the cube viewer. Request to expand this to all valid dat...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Ability to Edit/Modify PAW Calculations

When creating a custom calculation in PAW or adding a single number into the report ("Add to sheet"), it is not possible to view the logic / query nor to modify it. It would be helpful to be able to view and modify calculations and queries of sing...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

TM1 as a data source from multiple BI environments

Want to be able to use a TM1 instance, in security mode 5 as a data source for multiple BI environments. In latest PMR 64563,122,000 it was mentioned we are reaching this limitation:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21657623"Current...
over 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Automate ingestion and activation of users

Traditional best practice approach to security is to leverage the existing enterprise authentication provider. This includes using enterprise authentication group memberships to both allow access and allocate data security. With the PAW interface ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration