Skip to Main Content
Cloud Management and AIOps


This is an IBM Automation portal for Cloud Management, Technology Cost Management, Network Automation and AIOps products. 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,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.

Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

Clear

Apptio

Add ability to have multiple runs for 'Recurring Updates for Editable Tables'

At the moment, Editable Tables can only have one schedule for recurring updates. At most, this can be run hourly. However, we have a use case where we would like recurring updates to occur every 15min so that it's more 'real time' for our end user...
4 months ago in Apptio / Usability/UX Future consideration

Support if-then logic in custom metric

Would make reporting MUCH more powerful
28 days ago in Apptio / Apptio BI Future consideration

Add/Update/Delete Security Granularity in Apptio's Planning Modules (Labor, Contracts, Other)

The IBM Apptio Planning module does not currently support discrete add/update/delete permissions for individual users of the ApptioOne Planning modules (Labor, Contracts, Other). This limitation has led to challenges, particularly during our forec...
22 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Align Cross‑Charge deduction to the Resource’s default Project (Labor tab) instead of the activity Project

In Apptio Planning, when a cross‑charge is generated from the Labor Activity tab, the resulting charge and chargeback lines on the Summary tab both correctly reflect the Project selected on the Labor Activity entry. However, this creates a project...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Variance Analysis Grouping Adjustment

On the Variance Breakdown chart under Variance Analysis, the Group By drop down should be able to pull from the lowest level of the hierarchy. Currently, the Account Code and Account Name pull the Account Category. The Cost Center Code and Cost Ce...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Adding in the ability to use formulas in Apptio Planning.

I would like to discuss the idea of adding in the ability to create formulas within Apptio Planning. In NatWest we would like to be able to use our the Labour and associated cost data to calculate an internal day rate cost for our staff, this Day ...
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Trigger an email to remind customers that their Single Sign On (SSO) Certificate needs to be refreshed within Frontdoor.

Apptio SSO Certificates are now refreshed by the Customer, self served via Domain Management within Access Administration on Frontdoor. This refresh needs to take place annually and if not completed in time the customers end users will no longer b...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / User Management & Login Future consideration

Clustered columns on Spend Trend Visual in Summary View

Currently: In the Spend Trend visual on the Summary view, totals are only visible when hovering over the bars. This makes it harder to quickly interpret values, especially when different breakdowns are applied. Proposed Improvement: Display total ...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Save Filter Presets for Summary and Dashboard Views

Description: Currently, there is no option to save layouts or applied filters in the Summary View or Dashboard View. Each time users access these views, filters must be reapplied manually. Proposed Improvement: Introduce the ability to save preset...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration

Custom delimiter symbol

Enable the definition of a custom delimiter during data export and/or restrict the use of predefined delimiters within input fields used by the tool. The currently used delimiters (; and ,) are also commonly present in description fields, which ca...
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning Future consideration