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

Ideas

Showing 67

Restrict Visibility of Infrastructure Events

BackgroundWe recently created a dedicated group to manage and restrict access to infrastructure-related information. This group has been granted access only to specific application perspectives and selected websites, ensuring that sensitive infras...
4 months ago in Instana / Access Control 2 Is a defect

Server/Agent-Level Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in Instana

Hi Team,Currently in Instana, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) can be applied at the Websites, Mobile Apps, Business Process and Applications etc... levels. However, there is no provision to assign access permissions at the server or agent level. ...
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control / Agent 1 Not under consideration

Monitor the SAML attempts and notify on specific failures

Case: TS020088958 In reference to identity provider (IdP), in reference to single-sign-on SAML failures, such as sign-in-request failed, took too long, received an error message, each of these events should be in an audit log. Software Self Hav...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

AD/LDAP Integration with Client's certificate for bind

LDAP integration (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/1.0.300?topic=configuration-configuring-ldap) accepts client's certificate for binding, additional to Bind DN and Password. It should be another configurable option.
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Instana to monitor IBM DataPower Gateway Physical appliance to do end-to-end observability solution for IBM API solution.

My Clients in Thailand have applications expose service to consumers by API and using IBM solution that inclide [1] IBM DataPower Gateway  Physical appliance [2] APIConnect on CP4I . They plan to use Instana to do end-to-end observability but now...
over 1 year ago in Instana / DataPower 1 Not under consideration

Adding Front Side Protocol to monitoring by Instana IBM DataPower sensor

Instana provides monitoring of Multi-Protocol Gateway. But we need to know the status of Front Side Protocol eg. HTTP Handler of the Gateway. Knowing the status (up/down) is very important. Please see attachment.
7 months ago in Instana / DataPower 0 Future consideration

LDAP integration - automatic retrieve list of users and groups

It would be a useful feature that Instana, after the integration with LDAP, would automatically retrieve all users and groups from the LDAP according to the filter given in the LDAP configuration. This way administration of new users would be m...
over 3 years ago in Instana / Access Control 5 Functionality already exists

Adding the ability to filter IBM DataPower entities by IBM MQ v9+ objects

Dynamic focus query supports only filtering by appliance, cluster, domain or service objects. It would be useful to have the option to filter IBM MQ v9+ objects using name and status (see the idea INSTANA-I-3384), e.g., entity.ibmdatapower.qmv9.na...
9 months ago in Instana / DataPower 2 Future consideration

User re-invitation feature is required in Instana SaaS

Currently, there's no re-invitation of User in Instana SaaS. The only way to re-invite specific user is to delete and create again. It's very very inconvenient for our Instana users when re-invitation is needed.
3 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Not under consideration

Extend Instana Terraform Provider to Support RBAC with Teams & Roles

Instana is introducing Teams and Roles for RBAC, but the Terraform provider does not yet support managing these entities. For large organizations, managing RBAC as code is crucial for maintaining consistency, security, and quality control. Extendi...
7 months ago in Instana / Access Control 1 Future consideration