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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.

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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Store and Retrieve Passwords in Credential Manager

Request: Enable PowerShell scripts and Python executables (e.g., .exe created via pyinstaller) to securely access the Windows Credential Manager — or its Linux equivalent — within the Planning Analytics on Cloud (PAoC) environment. Purpose: Thi...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Sort Planning Analytics Workspace security groups alphabetically

When interacting with security groups in Planning Analytics Workspace, the groups appear unsorted making it difficult to select the one you're looking for. This has been especially challenging when interacting from a drop down list, such as when s...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability to hide PAW reports while users still having access through Plan

In our Contributor application, once a budget was submitted our users were unable to make edits to the data. This allowed us to rest easy that no further edits were made to the data after a plan was submitted and approved. In Planning Analytics Wo...
21 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted
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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
over 8 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Default setting for publishing Websheets from PAfE should be "r99_EnableNewPublish" : true

This idea refers to following the Community-Blog entry by Stuart King: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/blogs/stuart-king1/2024/10/30/publishing-websheets-from-pafe-2099 Updating an existing Websheet in Planning Analytics for Excel by defa...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Database Start time in Planning Analytics Administration

The database start time in Planning Analytics Administration only reflects the start time from manual restarts, so it is inaccurate as the databases on the cloud are restarted once per month for scheduled maintenance. This gives an inaccurate perc...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Functionality already exists

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...
almost 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered

Planning Analytics for Excel - UI for DefineCalc function

Hello, the DefineCalc function in Pafe is intended to enable the end user to create their own calculations. However, not every user is able to understand the MDX syntax, therefore a power user, TM1 developer is necessary for the definition. In ord...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

Deployment and Versioning with Cognos Analytics

We use various COGNOS components, which are however to be seen as parts of an overall product. Reports, framework manager packages, TM1 cubes, etc. are interdependent and must be handled accordingly.In concrete terms, this means that consistency m...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Future consideration

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...
9 months ago in Planning Analytics 2 Delivered