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 46

Ability to change order of cost sharing rules

customers can't change the cost sharing rules order when they need to change it from UI.
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

Enable month-specific fixed weightages in Cost Sharing (prevent retroactive changes)

Why it is useful Currently, Cost Sharing rules apply retroactively across all months. If a user changes a fixed weightage (e.g., from 10% to 20%), past months are automatically updated. This behavior creates inaccurate historical cost views and pr...
3 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release

Missing 'Select All' option in Apptio BI Report level filters

The report level filters in Apptio BI lack the option to select all values filtered using the search functionality. Having a "Select all" would avoid the cumbersome task of selecting each item individually.
9 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Capturing S3 Folder Costs

Hi Team, We are trying to see costs at a folder level inside of S3 Buckets. Cloudability doesn't have the ability to divide the cost of each S3 bucket by each individual folder path. Additionally, AWS doesn’t allow you to put tags on the folders, ...
7 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Future consideration

Give ability for user to see all reports they have access to

There is no way to see a complete list of the reports that you have access to in Apptio BI. This is because the "All" option doesn't actually show all reports as one would naturally assume from the name. It only shows reports created by the user o...
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Including Services Without Direct Costs IN cost sharing ruleS

Hi, Currently, it’s not possible to use cost statements for services that don’t have direct costs in the cost sharing feature. We have several services—such as those composed of Frontend, Backend, API Management, and SQL Database—that don’t genera...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Under review

Allow more than one Insight per Apptio BI report

This would allow more insight benefits to be obtained and more conveniently. Otherwise multiple reports need to be spawned in order create required Insights.
4 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Plan tab does not factor in cost sharing rules

It'll be helpful to use the cost views defined with the sharing rules in the Plan tab (Forecast, budget,...). Many companies don't split the budget split for IT department, but rathet by main lines of business. Also, a single resource may be used ...
4 months ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Planned for future release

Rich text in text widget

It would enhance the user experience in BI text widgets if hyperlinks and potentially more formatting options could be added. I do have text widgets with URL's right now but people have to select the text to navigate.
11 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Enable Views to be shared based on role assignment rather than named users.

Support Case Ref:00355348 This applies to Apptio TOTALCOST including Cloudability and TBM Studio/Cost Transparency. Our access management approach is such that we expose certain features to our end users based on their Mission Organization. A Mi...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 1 Future consideration