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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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Planning Analytics

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252 VOTE

Waterfall chart or Step Chart

Waterfall charts or step charts are a common requirement for Financial Reporting. In Excel the approach is to use transparent colours in a stacked bar chart to build the height required to just show the differences). In the Explorer view a Waterfa...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Delivered
142 VOTE

Multi Select Option for PAW

The current dimension element selector only allow users to select a single element from a dimension but no option to select multiple elements and see aggregated data on the fly. The MDX based calculation(Summerized) option is not as intuitive as a...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 7 Delivered
151 VOTE

Enable numbers to be displayed on graphs (bar, column, line, point , stacked bar, stack column)

Currently numbers are only displayed on bubble charts or slices on the pie chart. This functionality should be extended to add numbers to bar, column, line, point , stacked bar, stack column charts This enhancement needs the option to abbreviate t...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 6 Delivered
133 VOTE

Send Email notification

We should have a send email option available attached with the PA. No need to search any outside VB or JAVA script for the same. better to have a integrated send email option.
almost 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

PAW Action Button ability to get parameters from selectors

From the last demonstration that I have seen of 2.0.6 PAW is only able to prompt for parameters to a TI process at the time that you click on the Action Button. This is not how most systems are designed. Users will typically make selections in the...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Delivered

Integrated security in PAW

It is very unconvenient to set security in PAW, because it is not connected with clients and groups from Planning Analytics. When client wants to use PAW, we nedd build separate security. It is okay that we need to set security for folders and boo...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered
134 VOTE

Custom colors in Planning Analytics Workspace

We would like to have the opportunity to change color palettes and add custom colors to visualizations, text and shapes in Planning Analytics
almost 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Add Action Button Object to PA Workspace

All of our customers using Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) needs to load data using TurboIntegrator (TI) processes. Today, it's necessary to build a new Websheet, using Perspectives, with an Action Button for each process to be added to the a s...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

PAW: User friendly Multiple Selection for Header Dimensions including Calculation options

The process of selecting some elements from a header dimension, including the possibility to select the calculation mode for these elements (min, max, sum, average, …), in diagrams as well as in tables, is not too user-friendly. Current workaround...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 8 Delivered

Need programmatic control over synchronization

I tried to built a report in PAW which has three separate grids, showing Month, YTD and Full Year. These must be separate grids as the other things that the grids show are different. There is a selector at the top allowing the user to choose the m...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 8 Delivered