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

Add support for Databricks Private Link and Private Endpoints when onboarding Databricks

Many enterprise organisations — particularly in regulated industries — enforce strict network security policies that mandate all data connections use Private Link or Private Endpoints rather than public internet routing. Currently, Cloudability’s ...
5 days ago in Cloudability / Vendor Credentials and Integrations 0 Submitted

Update the way that SevOne collects Linux filesystem usage via SNMP

There is an issue with Linux filesystem monitoring via SNMP when the monitored server reboots.  When SevOne runs discovery, it maps discovered filesystem names (hrStorageDescr) with the SNMP index number (hrStorageIndex).  During subsequ...
3 days ago in SevOne / Network Management System (NMS) 0 Submitted

Per request from IWA engineering - child Concurrent Programs within a Request Set require runtime arguments to execute successfully as described in case TS021502001

"The Program Parameters field in the IWA Request Set job definition does not serve the same purpose as it does for Concurrent Programs. For Request Sets, that field encodes the mapping between child programs and their stages within the Request Set...
4 days ago in Workload Automation 0 Submitted

I'd like Quick Pivot to support pie charts as well.

In the old Report Studio, Pivot supported pie charts, but the new Report Studio does not, which causes an error, so I would like this to be fixed.
10 days ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Report Studio 0 Submitted

Using the new AI bot to produce automated summary that can be added to an entity.

Jira has a feature that automatically summarizes the request and related comments, displaying the summary at the top of the Activity section. ATP should offer similar functionality by leveraging its AI capabilities. See the Jira screenshot as an e...
19 days ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 1 Submitted

Start using VolumeStalledIOCheck as a possible metric to calculate EBS availability (SLO)

To improve accuracy of created SLO rules for this service type, the VolumeStalledIOCheck is one of the possible additional metrics that can help on this case. "This alarm helps you monitor the IO performance of your Amazon EBS volumes. This check ...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Infrastructure 0 Submitted

Currency conversion for custom attributes in the Assets tab

Currently, NBV within the Assets tab does not convert when the Global Currency is changed for non-GBP cost centres. NBV is configured as a Decimal custom attribute, whereas Purchase Price is a Money field. As a result, Purchase Price converts to t...
6 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Explore Reporting - Standardize the definition of "Last Week"

When creating a basic cost report (using the new Explore interface), we have noticed that when we view weekly costs, the costs are split across two calendar weeks.  Specifically, when we choose a defined date range from the Reporting Range op...
2 days ago in Cloudability / Reports, Dashboards 0 Submitted

Allow Project in IIP to be Required

Currently users are not populating Project when they should since it is not required. Having the option to require something to be selected similar to cost center, that would make the data more accurate.
2 days ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Submitted

Add notification option for when Datadrop server receives files

The customer would like to be able to configure notifications for when their Apptio Datadrop SFTP Server receives file uploads so that they can run processes ad hoc and when those notifications are received. They dont always know when a file will ...
11 days ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 1 Submitted