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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


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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.

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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Encrypt PEM file for PAW

Currently, the pa-workspace.pem, while base64, is in an unencrypted format. Since this file contains the private key for the certificate, it can be vulnerable to back actors. When a company's wildcard certificate is used in the PEM file, the risks...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Need Control of default Folder order in Workspace

Want certain folders to be the first in the list by default. Right now the newest folders always show up at the top of the page.
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 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 ...
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

PAA: Enable email notification for process errors

Would like to have Planning Analytics Administration be able to send email notifications based on TI process failures and other log-based messages.
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Two www-Authenticate HTTP headers instead of one comma separated header

In Mixed Security Mode (IntegratedSecurityMode3), TM1 sends this WWW-Authenticate header: WWW-Authenticate: Negotiate, Basic realm="TM1" According to RFC 9110 Section 11.6.1-6 , it is valid to specify multiple methods in one WWW-Authenticate heade...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

PAW Personal Folders

When a user saves a Book in private folder, the Administrator cannot open it (neither execute nor modify). We would like a management similar to Cognos Analytics, where Administrators can access to "Administration console" (in Security management)...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 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 ...
about 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.
about 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

PA for excel Cells background colors

Cells background colors can be very confusing in PA for Excel . The styles are editable, but there has been no changes to the default. The point is it should be a default style for all users without any modifications
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Enable dropdown when the cell is locked/sheet is protected

When user wants to make a template for submission, they will go for additional security to lock the sheets and only allow the cells to be edited. This is done by locking the cells that are not meant for editing. Currently when this is applied the ...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration