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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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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.

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Export PAW Book to Excel

This feature would allow users to export an entire Planning Analytics Workspace (PAW) book directly into Excel. Each tab of the book would be exported as a separate worksheet within a single Excel file. Why is it useful? It simplifies the sharing ...
15 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 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....
5 days ago in Cognos Analytics / Install and config 0 Submitted

Synchronize PAW user groups in Planning Analytics databases automatically or in a process

Currently when adding a user to an existing security group in Planning Analytics Workspace, we have to go into our Planning Analytics database and synchronize the user group so that the security update is reflected in the database. It would be hel...
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 ...
6 days 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...
8 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...
8 days 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...
19 days 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

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...
19 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted

Change colour from blue to red of excel note indicator in Workspace

The default colour for Excel spreadsheet notes is red. This applies to both Excel and TM1Web. In Workspace, however, the indicator is blue. We would like to use red in all systems.
22 days ago in Planning Analytics 0 Submitted