Mar 11 2025
IBM Planning Analytics for Excel (PAfE) 2.0.101 / 2.1.8
IBM Planning Analytics for Excel version 2.0.10.1 (2.1.8) features enhanced member display for Sets in Excel, a redesign of Action Buttons to offer flexible options for initiating processes, navigation, or AI jobs, and an ability to trigger watsonx AI to enhance user workflows.
Details
- Version: 2.0.101 (v11) / 2.1.8 (v12)
- Released: February 11, 2025
What’s New
- 0:17 Set Drop-Down Menu
- 0:48 New design for Action Button
- 1:11 Start watsonx AI jobs from an Action Button
Transcript
Here is a breakdown of IBM Planning Analytics For Excel version 2.0.101, also known as 2.1.8. Released on February 11, 2025. This version improves the Set, the Action button, and a method to trigger watsonx AI. The Set improvement allows administrators to manage the number of members displayed in a drop down menu in Excel. By default, the value is set to 500. However, this property can be adjusted to reduce the amount of data requested from the server, potentially enhancing performance when retrieving members from larger Sets. You can find this property in the CognosOfficeReportingSettings file named TM1SetDropdownLimit.
Creating an Action Button is more flexible due to its redesign, allowing you to initiate a process, navigate, or perform an AI job independently or in combination with other actions. For example, you can configure a process to run and then navigate or configure an AI job to run after process has completed successfully.
To elaborate on the capabilities of the AI job, within the Action Button, you can initiate watsonx AI, which allows you to configure and create action buttons that seamlessly integrates AI capabilities to your workflow.
And that wraps up the features for Planning Analytics For Excel version 2.0.101.