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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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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,


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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.

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



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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...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Default settings for PAW environment

Currently if the client has custom settings, these colours/fonts/sizes needs to be applied to each widget (taking time and a lot of maintenance). There is also a risk that if users create ad-hoc dashboards, that they use different settings than th...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Update the view with multiple hierarchies and MDX

Hello Product Management Team, Based on documentation, there is no direct built in functionality to dynamically update a views MDX based on a selection cell within a book in PAW. The StrToSet function can be used to dynamically define sets in MDX,...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Needs more information

PAfE: IBM Connections: Avoid Automatic Addition of Connection URLs When Opening Workbook

When opening workbooks, the "IBM Connection URLs" used during the creation of the workbook (likely stored in the worksheet's custom properties "COR_Report" and/or "COR_Server") are automatically added to PAfE (CommManagerSettings.xml) without noti...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted
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Custom Rollups in PAW set editor - used as filters

An important need from customers would be to create custom rollups in PAW.The user would need to pick some elements in the set editor, create a rollup and use it as a filter, either in the selector widget or in a view.
almost 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 16 Delivered

Create a function to set MTQ parameter NumberofThreadsTo Use manually in the prolog of a TI process then set it back to its normal value in the epilog

This would stop issues where high touch processes conflict with other processes causing issues such as nulptr errors. It would also alleviate the risk of hanging up the instance where 2 processes attempt to lock the same objects and ultimately a s...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Need User Groups for Folder permsions settings

We have over 200 users and every time a new folder is created permissions has to be set for every user for each folder that cannot inherit rights from it's parent. We need some sort of integration of Users and Groups in the folder settings in PAw.
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Allow developers to set the column width for Cube views in PAW and disregard members as the context.

The general issue can be seen at this link https://community.ibm.com/community/user/businessanalytics/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?GroupId=3067&MessageKey=34afee39-b281-43ab-93f0-83b1d9e81797&CommunityKey=8fde0600-e22...
over 4 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Future consideration

search capability in PAW for all existing and new features, e.g. Set Picklist Dimension list, if it makes sense

Hello, please try to use all the existing possibilities and functions also for new features that you introduce, e.g. the new feature Set Picklist: you can use the dimensions to create or to edit the picklist in a new UI, but what is not there, is ...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Applications using book tabs as resources (not the whole book)

When you create a new section on a given application, the only option you have is to include a full book as a resource. If possible, for user experience reasons, it would be nice if we could apply Book Tabs as application resources. Let's say we h...
over 2 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration