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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).


Shape the future of IBM!

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:


Search existing ideas

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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Post ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted and upvote them if they matter to you,

  1. Post an idea

  2. Upvote ideas that matter most to you

  3. Get feedback from the IBM team to refine your idea


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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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Support for TM1 connection in SPSS and WML

Adobe is working on a use case where they would like to read data from TM1 (Planning analytics), run timeseries analysis using SPSS and Watson Machine learning and feed the result back to TM1. They are doing this work on Cloud Pak for Data on IBM ...
over 2 years ago in watsonx.ai 1 Delivered

Allow Default Settings on a Workbook View to be defined as a System Setting

The New Experience interface (Release 78) of Planning Analytics allows the Overview section to be configured to display Hierarchy Names, Iconography, Context Information and Section Headers. By default only Iconography is set to display. Users fin...
over 3 years ago in Planning Analytics 4 Future consideration

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....
2 months 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...
2 months 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 ...
2 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...
2 months 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...
2 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 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...
4 months ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Make use of Planning Analytic views in Cognos Analytics

Make use of Planning Analytics (PA) views in Cognos Analytics. PA views are a powerful tool for business useres to generate and modify there view on their business. In order to better integrate IBM Cognos Analytics & Planning Analytics into on...
almost 8 years ago in Cognos Analytics 1 Not under consideration

Allow formatting of calculated and read-only cells

In Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) by default calculated cells are shown with a green background, and read-only cells are shown with a gray background. This feature is very useful because it stops users from trying to enter values in calculated...
over 1 year ago in Planning Analytics 1 Delivered