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).


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



Add a new idea Subscribe
Workspace Planning Analytics
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 23, 2026

RELATED IDEAS

Backup capability for additional PAW front-end components via API to complete a full recovery set when added to back-end database backup

Currently, nightly backups of the TM1 database are scheduled in PA and can be downloaded. An enhancement is expected to be delivered toward the end of 2026 to extend this and enable an API interface so that further automation can be achieved to meet financial, legal and regulatory requirements beyond the 30 days that automated backups remain available via PAW, and assist with automation of a backup strategy to external S3 buckets, tools such as Comvault, etc. Although this will enable integrations and programmatic control/scheduling via TI or other tools to call the API, it only takes care of the back-end of the ability to restore a point in time copy and fully recover.

Following a recent case to recover a tenant, it has become clear that fully backing up and enabling complete technical recovery of an environment requires more than the database backup contained in the .tar.gz files. While this backup supports recovery of the back-end TM1 database, restoring full functionality also requires a front-end export/snapshot, as well as exports of PAW users and PAW groups. I understand that these three front-end components may not be included in the backup API being delivered later in the year and there is no current way to schedule/automate the front-end and PAW users and PAW groups that are needed to fully restore the environment.

Needed By Quarter
  • Admin
    Stuart King
    Jun 23, 2026

    This is on our roadmap for 2H 2026

    Reply

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.