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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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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Planning Analytics

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Eliminate PAX error in Design Mode

My client uses Design mode to build reports based off a 20 dimension cube. This way it does not recalculate each time something is dragged in or the context changes. An issue arises where the user drags in the dimenion on the rows and then goes to...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Is a defect

Gantt / Timeline Chart

Add a new Gantt chart (timeline) to Planning Analytics Workspace.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Insert Subtotals in PAW like in Pivot Table

It would be very helpful if we can create a subtotal in PAW when we have multiple row dimensions. Please see attached Excel book for example. Someone mentioned about this idea in 2018 (see post "Show sub totals in PAX and PAW similar to Pivot tabl...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Export a slice to Excel instead of snapshot.

AFAIK the Export to Excel function in PAW creates a snapshot of the Cube Viewer to Excel. Please add the feature to also export a slice to excel. It is possible in Cognos TM1 so I hope it will also be possible in PAW: Cognos TM1: https://www.ibm.c...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Attributes selected in set editor to persist to cube viewer

When working with cubes users often refer to attributes for additional information. Typically a user starts by going into the set editor to create their set, select the required elements or possibly choose another set. They then select attributes ...
about 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Combo Charts: Columns and lines get fed from the same dimensions

Currently columns and lines need to be fed from different dimenskons. To fully leverage that chart type, it needs to be possible to have columns and bars fed from the same dimension.
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Functionality already exists

Control Slider Widget speed

Current the Slider widget is not allowing time for the screen to fully render before moving to the next element in the subset on the slider. There are the following options:1 The slider waits until the screen fully renders before commencing the st...
over 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under 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 ...
almost 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

Text cell format in PA Workspace

To optimize the use of automated reports, we need to have the possibility to add comments (text format) using colors or bold fonts for example. Today, we only have the possibility to add black and white comments, with simple fonts. Thank you.
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Needs more information

Allow Planning Analytics for Excel to work with Chromium browsers

The current version of PAX uses Internet Explorer 11 as its back-end. This browser is no longer being updated or supported by Microsoft soon. Instead, it is being replaced by the chromium-based Edge browser, now standard on most Windows 10 compute...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration