Cloud 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

Tivoli Network Manager

Detection of Card/PSU/Fan inserted/removed from the device

We need a mechanism in IBM ITNM to detect and identify hardware changes between consecutive discoveries. The requirement is to compare the hardware inventory of a network device across multiple discovery cycles and determine whether any hardware c...
about 1 month ago in Tivoli Network Manager Submitted

Extending DBFinder to fetch the data from the SevOne via APIs directly and use it for ITNM Discovery

Currently, DBFinder can get the data from the databases via direct user authentication. In the bank network we have SevOne with NPM feature. We are trying to automate the ITNM discovery process and get the data directly from SevOne during the Disc...
3 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager Submitted

Enhanced TEXTUAL-CONVENTION and DISPLAY-HINT support in the ncp_mib parser.

Issue Identified The parse error at line 477 in PAN-COMMON-MIB is caused by a custom TEXTUAL-CONVENTION definition: FloatValue ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION DISPLAY-HINT "d-2" SYNTAX OCTET STRING (SIZE(0..64)) ITNM's MIB parser has limited support for TE...
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager Needs more information

Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition (ITNM): Add support for autostart with systemd

Current autostart configuration for ITNM according to IBM: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/networkmanager/4.2.0?topic=crrp-configuring-processes-start-automatically-in-non-root-installation According to the documentation and when reading the "create_i...
4 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager Future consideration

Add support for the MO class "REGSTR" for NETACT Java Collector , this has never been supported by this collector before , verified by IBM developer

Add support for the MO class "REGSTR" for NETACT Java Collector , this has never been supported by this collector before , verified by IBM developer
6 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager Planned for future release

Requesting MCP server cooperation

I am looking to ingest ITNM data, I will gather from a webhook a subset of alterable items, I also would like to query all incidents, query RCA tables and Topology tables. I wish to whitelist specific queries and rate limit to a supportable level....
6 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager Future consideration

Centralized Process Management for Core Domain Start/Stop in Horizontally Scaled Environment

In our current environment, we are having to manage approximately 30 domains configured across 20 physical servers with High Availability. This architecture necessitates the manual start and stop of up to 60 domains during scheduled maintenance ac...
6 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager Future consideration

Interactive ITNM GUI Dashboard

There is a lot of things that completely missing on the ITNM GUI, like be able to view all devices, interfaces, cards, fans and power supply discovered in NCIM per domain at once, to filter them based on our business. this is very important for th...
8 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager Future consideration

Clean & Pruning Poll Database

We need a way to prune and clean poll database, like the one done in ncim when we start fresh discovery and remove old caches and DNCIM folder. this is very important as there a lots un-needed data from testing and trying different combination of ...
8 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager Not under consideration

Add support for aes256-cbc

With the migration to ciphers aes256 and above, it would be useful for ITNM to support aes256-cbc which is commonly support on networking vendors.
9 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager Planned for future release

By clicking the "Post Comment" or "Submit Idea" button, you are agreeing to the IBM Ideas Portal Terms of Use.
Do not place IBM confidential, company confidential, or personal information into any field.