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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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Automate logon on the cloud

There is currently no way to automate the logon to the cloud in the API for PAx. Therefore, I cannot fully automate the generation and dissemination of Excel reports that use Planning Analytics On-Demand. It has to be a person's daily task to open...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Drive Explorer performance increase in Planning Analytics On Cloud

As from Nov 2025 IBM have decommissioned PA rich tiers we are facing performance issues when we are working with Planning Analytics drive explorer. When we are selecting anything in drive explorer or typing something there is lag between text show...
10 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Planning Analytics Workspace - Ability to Update Banner/Titles

Requesting the ability to update the banner/titles within the Planning Analytics Workspace interface. At the top of the screen, there is the logo in the top left and the title "IBM Planning Analytics Workspace. Speed. Agility. Foresight". We would...
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Dynamic Number of Time Series Forecasted in Watson Studio SPSS Modeler Flow

There is need to be able to run a forecasting job even if the amount of timeseries changes (without going to the modeler to manually select a Type for each series). This can happen (but is not limited to) when using MDX to import data from IBM Pla...
almost 4 years ago in SPSS Modeler in Watson Studio 0 Future consideration

Double-clicking on cube should open cube in cube viewer (like Perspectives)

Our users are very used to double-clicking on a cube to open cube viewer. Please create this option in Planning Analytics for Excel.
about 6 years ago in Planning Analytics 0 Delivered

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules

Planning Analytics for Excel PAX (formerly Cafe) cannot connect to data sets or data modules only to FM packages. This seems like a severe limitation given that Data Sets and Data Modules are being pushed as one of the main new features in Cognos 11
almost 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 3 Not under consideration

MDX Subset does not update in paw

We have a model with various dynamic subsets, that uses MDX to read a text from a cell in a cube, and creates a subset based on that cell. The subsets, in general, works without any problems. The problem arise when we apply the subset in Planning ...
about 7 years ago in Planning Analytics 3 Not under consideration

Provide a method to mass update passwords for ODBC TIs

Currently, Planning Analytics provides two ways to save credentials for ODBC TIs: Save credentials in ecrypted form within each TI Save credentials in plain-text in a cube so that credentials can be retrieved at run-time. The first option makes it...
over 5 years ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered

"Download in progress" notification when exporting websheets from PAW

When a user opens an Excel websheet that is hosted on Planning Analytics Workspace, they have an option to export the sheet to Excel. Currently, there is no notification or indication that the download has started or is in progress. For a user on ...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Not under consideration

I propose my project as a new product in the scope of IBM Planning Analytics.

It refers to Automating Profit Calculation in almost any market scenario in nearly every firm in a capitalistic country.
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Not under consideration