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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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Need a session time out warning pop-up in Planning Analytics Workspace.

To enhance user experience and prevent loss of unsaved work, we suggest implementing a session timeout warning pop-up in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW). Currently, when a user session times out due to inactivity, the system logs the user o...
7 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Ability to schedule regular backup of PAW objects in Saas

Currently in our Planning Analytics as a Service environment we can schedule regular backups of the database, but we have to manually snapshot the Planning Analytics Workspace content such as reports and plans. We would like to be able to schedule...
about 2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

satellite connector only allows single destination per connection

When setup ODBC connection in IBM Planning Analytics Cloud, Satellite connector architecture only allows single destination per connection. Per IBM case TS018123063, due to the flaw of Satellite connector, we can not setup ODBC connection to Snowf...
6 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Satellite Connector agent to be able to connect to 2 or more connectors

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
12 months ago in Planning Analytics 1 Submitted

Cognos Analytics on Cloud and Planning Analytics on Cloud to share one Satellite Connector

Secure Gateway was recently deprecated by IBM in favour of Satellite Connector. We have a customer who used Secure Gateway to connect Planning Analytics on Cloud (PA) and Cognos Analytics on Cloud (formerly on Demand)(CA). They now have Satellite ...
12 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

Cognos Image Service should be supported on Windows/docker as production environment

Most of our customers run Cognos products on Windows, nor do they have any Unix/Linux system at all.From customer's perspective the setup of a separate Linux/Docker environment to get new visualizations into PDF output means an 'excessive' effort....
about 1 month ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

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

Adding Release Ownership Event to list of PAW Plan Events to trigger TI process

Currently there is a list of 6 events that can be configured in a Planning Analytics Workspace Plan to run a TI process. One of those available events is when a user Takes Ownership. We have found this helpful, but would like to trigger a similar ...
about 1 month ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted