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

Pinned ideas

PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

All ideas

Showing 4166 of 4166

Log Aggregation

We want to be able to retrieve logs generated on the managed clusters through APIs exposed on the MCM hub. W up to and including pods.
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 1 Future consideration

Add tag to modified RDS resource when action is executed

DFS is using RDS managed by OCP operator. In order to sync with operator configuration after turbo made RDS instance modification DFS would like Turbo to add a Tag to modified RDS DB, that would say ”Turbo modified - current configuration is ‘inst...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud PaaS & DBaaS 1 Not under consideration

Current row highlighted / visually formatted when editing in ITP

As ITP Users, we’d like the current row being edited/worked on to be highlighted (bolded or visually formatted) so that we can easily distinguish the row when working on one side of the row to the other. This will make updating rows easier when th...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Under review

Including Forecasts as a dimension in Reporting

Including Forecasts as a dimension in Reporting.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Costing 1 Functionality already exists

Include optimization options as dimensions in reporting

I'd like to generate a report on rightsizing opportunities and for that report to show me the various options (#1 #2 #3).  Currently, I can see data in the rightsizing UI and have to click on the three dots to see the other recommendations ou...
9 months ago in Apptio / Other 1 Submitted

CLOSE_WAIT status monitoring

We need Instana to monitor, alert and publish CLOSE_WAIT status for running processes on a host. It will be used for troubleshooting as well as proactive measure to avoid any potential outage.
9 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Attach instana unix agent only to specific JVMs (inverse of INSTANA_IGNORE)

Hello, I would like to make a request for ability to attach instana agent only to specific JVMs (not to all JVMs that exists on application host which is current default). I found that there is INSTANA_IGNORE=true JVM environment variable ( https...
9 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Future consideration

For the Power systems, need local agent in VIOS similar to what others are certified for in https://community.ibm.com/community/user/power/viewdocument/vios-recognized-list

Local agent installations on the VIOS on Power Servers will help to fetch metrices at more granular level than the minimum 5m offered by the HMC. After discussion with Power sales team, this remains one of the main bottleneck to position Instana a...
9 months ago in Instana / IBM Power / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Display CF Tooltip On List View

It would be helpful if the tooltip/description for custom fields could be displayed on list views, possibly when the cursor is over the column header.
9 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Data source encryption with AES

The current AES Encryption implementation in OMNIbus and WebGUI only allows passwords up to 30 characters long whether encrypted or un-encrypted. If you encrypt a password longer than 16 chars using ncw_aes_crypt script, the encrypted string becom...
9 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Future consideration