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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).


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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.

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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...
11 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Enable Individual Storage Volume Configuration During Planning Analytics Workspace Updates on OpenShift

Currently, when updating Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) on OpenShift, the PA_KUBE_STORAGE_SIZE variable in the paw.env file applies uniformly to all storage volumes (MongoDB, Redis, etc.). This limitation creates issues when certain volumes ha...
12 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace backup size limitation

Problem Description The backup.ps1 script, used to backup PAW in Windows Server, uses the compress-archive PowerShell command. This command uses the System.IO.Compression.ZipArchive API to compress files, and the API limits the maximum file size...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Need Print Report Capability in Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE)

Our finance users use the "Print Report" capability in Perspectives. Using existing spreadsheets that include both TM1 formulas and excel formulas, they print these which resolve the tm1 formulas but maintain the excel fformulas and then use the b...
6 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Reporting 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace repair of mongo database

Problem Description It seems that when objects are deleted from PAW, the underlying mongo database does not release the disk space no longer required. In order for the size of the Mongo database to be reduced, a custom repair command needs to be ...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Satellite Connector agent to be able to connect to 2 or more connectors

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud to share one Satellite Connector

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace object sizes

Problem Description There is currently a maximum size to the content the PAW backup.ps1 script can manage. If the PAW container databases exceed this maximum size, then the backup.ps1 script fails. Currently there does not seem to be a way to de...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Planning Analytics Workspace backup not returning error exit code

Problem Description It seems that the PAW backup.ps1 utility generates a success exit code (0) even when the backup fails. For example, if the PowerShell command is unable to complete a backup because its file size limitation has been reached, a...
26 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Expose PAW User Administration Logs for PAoC

Please enable visibility into the action/actor/operation/status for user update activities performed within PAW for Planning Analytics on Cloud environments and enable the 'actor' to be associated with the actual user making updates/changes. Curre...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted