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 20

Accommodate multi-tier MSP model - Distributor-Partner-End Customer

Ingram Micro is looking for the capability to manage public cloud costs at their Org level (root), partner level (intermediate), and end customer level. Right now they're offering Cloudchekr free of charge to their partners for AWS, but charging t...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration

Add WebSphere (WAS) information to Analytics filters

Hello, Can you please add WebSphere (WAS) information like Server Name, Node Name and Cell Name into Analytics filters? This would be useful because it would allow us to group calls by those WebSphere information. Something similar is already done...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

WebSphere: Show Active threads metric in graph in WebSphere technology dashboard

Hello, Currently, WebSphere default dashboard (host -> process -> JVM -> Webshpere) does not show graph with Active threads metric (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=technologies-monitoring-websphere-applicat...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 0 Planned for future release

Allow the focus integracion Data Azure

we need that the data are synchronized without replace all forward slashes "/" to minus "-" in the BillingAccountId column in the csv file. This is very operational and consumes too much time on a daily basis.
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 2 Not under consideration

MSP are manually processing AWS MAP credits, and they need an automated way of achieving this.

AWS offers an extremly complex way of receiving credits back for workloads that are being migrated to Aws from onprem. This complexity is by design to make sure for most part that credits are never realized. This requires enormous tagging of workl...
8 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 0 Not under consideration

Assign Accounts to Customers with easy

On Cloudalibilty Apptio, if you have several customers with several vendors and several account per vendor, you have on Organization page to manually selecte every account to assign to your customer. The screen behaviour is horrible, with no facil...
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP 1 Planned for future release

Ingest Organization structure defined in GCP and AWS

This will allow for better organization of data based on the Organizational Unit Hierarchy defined in GCP and AWS
9 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability MSP / Data Mapping and Organization 1 Planned for future release

Discovery of IIS Workers and WebSphere Instances which does not have any calls for a specific time bound

Detail: Since the inventory we monitor with Instana is very large, we do not know which IIS Worker and / or WebSphere instances are being called or not. We want the IIS Worker and WebSphere instances that does not have any calls are discovered by ...
about 1 year ago in Instana / WAS 2 Not under consideration

View the JVM DB Connection Pool and trigger an event (e.g., an event occurs when the idle DB Connection is below 10%)

I would like to monitor the Connection Pool that connects to the DB in a general JVM. I would also like to request that you add a function that can monitor the connection to the DB in JVM monitoring.
about 1 year ago in Instana / Sensor / WAS 1 Future consideration

Agent starting time in Agent overview

Sometimes we have new agents reporting to an instana backend. In the agent overview we can't see which agents are new because in the list, there is no "started at" column. But the information is hidden behind the status field. We can see it "on mo...
about 3 years ago in Instana / Agent / WAS 0 Not under consideration