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IBM Data Platform Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data Platform 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:


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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.

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Format Manager - Copy/Paste Format from one cube view to another

We need the ability to create a 'standard' format in the 'format manager' for a cube view and apply it across pre-existing cube views. Manually updating pre-existing reports with the new capabilities provided in the format manager is extremely tim...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Simplify Security Logins for Drive Explorer

Currently in Drive Explorer you have to login to the remote file store. Coming soon, you'll also have to log into the local file store. From a security perspective, this makes sense. However, it is tedious for administrators especially when there ...
11 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

In PAW there should be the ability to combine data from multiple cubes (from different instances) into one report by sharing the same metadata.

Excel allows for the combining of cube data from different instances into one report but this is not available in Planning and Analytics Workspace. Dashboards and analysis often require data from different cubes (and other data sources) which shar...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

WCAZ SAAS must be HIPPA certified or customers in the Healthcare Industry cannot leverage it, forcing the only deployment option to be on-prem for the LLMS which is resource intensive and could easily become outdated

HIPPA certification is mandatory for any IBM SAAS service used by most of our Healthcare customers. Given that the LLMs do not interact with data, the certification process should hopefully be easy for the team, while opening up this market/industry.
7 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

PAW: Checkbox data format

Checkboxes are very useful for mappings and for custom approvals. Now the users need to select values in picklist in custom approvals (like "approved" or "declined"), or to enter "0" and "1" in mappings. It would be much more comfortable for them ...
about 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Planned for future release

Request to Simplify and Improve ADDI Visualization for New User Onboarding

We have received repeated feedback from our client regarding the current visualization of flow diagrams and reports within ADDI. They have expressed that many of the generated diagrams appear overly dense and difficult to interpret, especially for...
8 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Snapshot from Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel

The ability to snapshot a cube view while working in PA for Excel is no longer available. The only option to go from the viewer to Excel is by exporting to one of the report formats. Although useful in many use cases, this is sometimes not realist...
about 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

The PL/I macro names should be referable in WCA4Z Understand

When preprocessing PL/I source code in WCA4Z Understand(ADDI), macros are visualized in their expanded state, which makes it impossible to identify the original macro names in Application Discovery (AD)Analyze Client. To improve usability for appl...
4 months ago in watsonx Code Assistant Ideas / watsonx Code Assistant for Z 0 Under review

Run custom TurboIntegrator processes from any cell of a cube

Instead of putting Action-Buttons on a workspace websheet or a PAfE sheet, it would be very beneficial, if it would be possible to be able to run TI-processes - to streamline workfows of users and to enhance user-friendliness of a Planning Analyti...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Future consideration

Synchronize PAW user groups in Planning Analytics databases automatically or in a process

Currently when adding a user to an existing security group in Planning Analytics Workspace, we have to go into our Planning Analytics database and synchronize the user group so that the security update is reflected in the database. It would be hel...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted