Skip to Main Content
Cloud 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

All ideas

Enable Cloudability to ingest and surface OpenAI Codex usage and associated costs, allowing customers to monitor, analyze, and manage their AI-related spend alongside their existing cloud costs.

As organizations increasingly adopt AI-assisted development tools such as OpenAI Codex, AI spend is becoming another category of technology expenditure that FinOps teams need to monitor. The customers would like to use Cloudability as a centralize...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Data Mapping and Organization 0 Submitted

Limit API calls from Cloudability user to specific regions

Geographical restrictions are real world requirements. Customers should be allowed to restrict which regions the Cloudability user can make any request to. Each call incurs a small charge but at aggregate these are noticeable costs. The ability to...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Governance 0 Submitted

AIOPs alert viewer should support the multi tier nested parent child alert assoctaion Visualization for Alerts like NOI does

Currently AIOP alert viewer support a single level parent child association visualization for correlated alerts where as NOI can support multi layer nested parent child association of correlated alerts. In nutshell AIOPs don't support visualizatio...
7 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Multiple Tags at Object Level

Can IBM please add the option to allow multiple Tags to be associated with Objects at an Object level not Agent level, for example MQ Queue Managers / Ace Integration Servers . This is required on a large enterprise to allow custom dashboards to e...
9 months ago in Instana / User Interface 2 Planned for future release

Ability to restrict the Rest API to specific user groups and rate-limiting

Currently, the Rest API can be used by anyone with access to the engine. We would like the ability to restrict that access to a specific user group or even source IP address or subnet. In addition, being able to rate limit Rest API calls would als...
about 1 year ago in Workload Automation 1 Not under consideration

Table widgets don't allow Application (Traces and Calls) and Logs as Data Source

Table widgets don't allow to add Application (Traces and Calls) or Logs as Data Source. There are several dashboard requirement where table structure for display data. Should also support heatmaps for data.
about 2 years ago in Instana / Business Systems / Portal 8 Future consideration

Need support for these MQ metrics to migrate from ITCAM to Instana for CP4I

Metrics required to be visible in Instana that are currently available via ITCAM Inhibited Queue Count(PUT and GET) - Queue Remote Client Versions(Application Versions) - Channel Errors(AMQ) or FDCs - MQ errors Alter Date & Time - Channel Maxi...
about 2 years ago in Instana / MQ / Sensor 4 Future consideration

OOTB Executive dashboard reporting

The customer would like to have the ability to have executive level aggregated reporting available OOTB in SevOne Data Insight. A streamlined capability to defined the calculations for creating the aggregate values would be necessary. Example Dash...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Future consideration

Ability to hide OOTB Folders / Reports

Telstra have requested a feature to introduce the ability to hide the OOTB "SevOne Folders" folder as well as OOTB reports. Currently any account able to view the Report Manager page is always able to see the OOTB folders/reports. The request is t...
about 1 year ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 0 Planned for future release

Request Access to Report should have a Request Access button or just show the report owner

Users are trying to access reports that are not shared with them and they do not know who the owner is so they can request access. This leads to requests to our team to identify those report owners. The Request Access to Report prompt should have ...
about 1 year ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Not under consideration