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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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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.

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VSAM insight AI agent on IBM Z

At Fall 2025 AI Council, Citibank expressed interest in a VSAM agent (similar to Db2 Agent that is in-plan) for watsonx assistant for Z. Client indicated that VSAM databases on IBM Z holds critical business data, yet extracting actionable insights...
7 days ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Submitted

Allow multiple hierarchies in the Measure dimension of a Planning Analytics (PA) cube to be used in Cognos Analytics

We have a Planning Analytics cube where the Income Statement Measure Dimension has more than one hierarchy. This works fine in a Planning Analytics Exploration and also in Planning Analytics for Excel, but it does not work in Cognos Analytics. In ...
3 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Under review

Planning Analytics - Identify which PAW books are being used

Across large environments and a large user base, many PAW books will be developed and being produced over time. In current stage information is available when the PAW book has been modified the last time. Understanding when the PAW book was access...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Suppress Static Subset Copy Message in Planning Analytics

Whenever Dynamic Subsets are used in SUBNM Formulas in Websheets in PAW books, a message pops up "Static Copy required". When using the SUBNM with a MDX Subset, the User drills up or down in the Hierarchy while selecting. When he selects any me...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Future consideration

Export PAW Book to Excel

This feature would allow users to export an entire Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) book directly into Excel. Each tab of the book would be exported as a separate worksheet within a single Excel file. Why is it useful? It simplifies the sharing ...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Display and Manage Persistent Volume (PV/NFS) Information in PAW Administration

For IBM Planning Analytics Cartridge on Cloud Pak for Data , TM1 data is stored on Persistent Volumes backed by NFS, NAS, or CSI storage. However, There is no visibility in PAW about where the data directory is mounted. The admins must run oc comm...
10 days ago in Cloud Pak for Data / Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

PAW Enhancement: Proactive Notifications for Updates and Brief Disconnects

Dear IBM Planning Analytics Team, Based on support ticket [Insert Ticket ID], where the team endorsed logging this as an enhancement, I'd like to propose better communication during PAW updates or temporary API disruptions. Users often see alarmin...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

On-Behalf-Of Flow for IBM Planning Analytics

At the moment for IBM Planning Analytics v12, we have the following limitaitons: It does not support SSO. It does not support CAM. Therefore when we want to connect IBM PA to WxO, or WxBI, it's more a personal thing, meaning every users need...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Improve Object Selection Stability in Tree Pane of Planning Analytics Workbench

Dear IBM Support Team, I am submitting this enhancement request to address an inconsistency in the object selection behavior within the Tree Pane of the Planning Analytics Workbench. Currently, selecting and copying object names is unreliable, whi...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Planned for future release

Synchronize PAW user groups in Planning Analytics databases automatically or in a process

Currently when adding a user to an existing security group in Planning Analytics Workspace, we have to go into our Planning Analytics database and synchronize the user group so that the security update is reflected in the database. It would be hel...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted