Skip to Main Content
Cloud Management and AIOps


This is an IBM Automation portal for Cloud Management 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 1280

Allow for the creation of Turbonomic groups based on VMware Virtual Machine Hardware Versions

As a user with a large VMware environment who is automating action execution through ServiceNow I would like the ability to create groups based on VM Hardware version. Turbonomic is currently recommending to increase the number of vCPU's outside t...
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 1 Future consideration

Would like a ROLE similar to Automator but with the ability to create Templates

Useful because then we won't have to assign the Administrator ROLE to an account used by an automation Service. Automator is missing the ability to create Templates.
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Future consideration

Improve tracing visibility

Hello, I tried to install UserTracing exit on MQ 9.4.0.0 on linux. Here after is my data chain : MQ 9.4.0.0 -> UserTracing exit -> otelcol -> jaeger backend ->grafana It works, and gives tracing times, but unfortunately, it's not as ad...
2 months ago in Instana / MQ 0 Future consideration

Flexible data storage requirements for appliances

The data storage requirements for the PAS and DNC are rigid at present. While a customer may not have a requirement to archive metric and flow data for a period of 1 year, the ova files are pre configured with a set storage requirement. The storag...
6 months ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Future consideration

ISM protocols in Instana

We would like to add ISM functionalities from the ISM agent (ITM and APM) to the Instana. It is necessary for us to have these functionalities so we can propose to our current customers to transfer from the ITM/APM solutions to Instana. Several of...
over 2 years ago in Instana / Synthetic 3 Future consideration

Publish version history for instana agent and k8sensor

When upgrading to a new version of the static instana agent we have no idea what changes there actually are in the new version. We would like to know what we're getting ourselves into, and to be able to chose whether to upgrade or not. Additionall...
10 months ago in Instana / Security and Compliance 0 Future consideration

From a VM object at VM level, see all groups it's a part of

I have a VM that I'm trying to test policies on. It is also part of another policy that has a very large subset of scoped vms, named with a sequence of letters and numbers. It's not easy to determine which group it is in, and remove it from that g...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 0 Future consideration

Sendevent using restapi

We have developped a tools which manage many cases coming from migration from CM/Autosys/.... and this tools use restapi and we would like to use also restapi to simulate the sendevent and replace the sendevent of Autosys. But this sendevent API f...
4 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Gateway for Message Bus (XML) should support replication of secondary tables

The gateway and probe for message bus is getting more and more important on all customer sites to receive alerts and to transfer ObjectServer data to external customer systems. Most customer implementations contain secondary tables which hold diff...
over 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 3 Future consideration

Ideas for more consumable actions

After initial deployment, it may take many Turbonomic actions to bring the existing environment to a more desired state. As a new user to Turbonomic it can be hard to digest and consume those actions and understand where to start. Some ideas to he...
about 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Future consideration