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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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Applications and Plans: Overview Visualizations

Carhartt Business users would like to have visualisations of the Overview tab incorporated to easy track & view the status of their tasks. Included in this, a status visualisation showing only the tasks that they are assigned to. For example, ...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future 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 ...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to change paper format and orientation for PDF report

PAW should allow end users to control the paper format and orientation of PDF reports. In CA there is an option for end users to choose the paper size and the orientation of the PDF output. IBM should modify PAW to have a similar function.
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Future consideration

Workspace Visualization "Repeat (column)" and "Repeat (row)" title formatting

It's not possible in Workspace, when working with a Visualization that offers "Repeat (column)" and "Repeat (row)" to format the title of the various repeated visualizations. Please enable the same consistent set of tools available to format other...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future 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 ...
over 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.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Align PAW roles with PA Subscriptions

Although the documentation states that an Explorer subscription can only be associated with Consumer role in PAW, in fact turning one user's subscription from User to Explorer in Subscription Management portal does not automatically change the rol...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Show Sum of selected cells in PA Workspace status bar (similar to Excel)

select multiple cells in a workspace exploration (e.g. a range via shift+select or individual cells via ctrl-select) and show common statistics of those cells in an info/status bar (similar to Excel), e.g. "Sum", "Average", "Count", "Min", "Max", etc
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

PA Workspace: Enhance Trace Cell function

Please add following possibilities to the trace cell feature: Zero suppression must be enabled! Enable Drill Through within trace cell function Possibility to export results Possibility to use the filter criteria of a traced cell into the explora...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 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