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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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Snapshot from Viewer in Planning Analytics for Excel

The ability to snapshot a cube view while working in PA for Excel is no longer available. The only option to go from the viewer to Excel is by exporting to one of the report formats. Although useful in many use cases, this is sometimes not realist...
8 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

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...
6 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...
5 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Allow Approvers to see full Task history in PAW Plan

When an approver for a Planning Analytics Workspace Plan task goes to approve a task, they are given an option to view Task history, but only their group's activity is visible to them. It is important as an approver to see the full history of that...
21 days 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...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Double Click Default action in PAW need to improve

Double-clicking objects in Planning Analytics Workspace in the welcome page is very slow and needs to be improved. And also in PAW Workbench hierarchy editor, and has a warning when in edit mode etc. double click not working as expected
about 2 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...
5 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 ...
11 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 ...
11 months ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 1 Submitted

XML export of views

Hello, It would be very helpful to have a native option in Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) to export views directly as XML files. Currently, we have implemented a workaround that is quite elaborate: The Excel file is downloaded via the export...
3 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted