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

My subscriptions: IBM Turbonomic ARM

Showing 612

Change units in downloaded csv file with recommendations

The units appear in KB and the client requests GB. It is a much more manageable and realistic unit given the current sizes.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 3 Future consideration

A status page for Turbonomic SaaS

Why is it useful? A dedicated SaaS status page for Turbonomic provides transparency to customers by delivering real-time updates on system performance, service availability, and ongoing incidents. This fosters trust and enhances the customer exper...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / SaaS 0 Planned for future release

Allowing Scheduling of a Parking Schedule Pause

We have a need to plan/schedule Parking Schedule Pauses to allow developers/engineers to plan maintain windows into existing Parking Schedules. So currently we have parking schedules in place and our sysadmins can pause a parking schedule for a pe...
4 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic Temporary Elevated Access for SSO Users

My engineers that support our Turbonomic SaaS Platform require "Site Administrator" access. Now that we're doing automation in Production, it's increasingly dangerous for "Site Administrator" to be our default level of access in the UI. I would ra...
9 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 0 Submitted

Use license cost in placement/scaling decisions

During our Tech Day at PWC, Jerry Trollo related a problem he had with Turbonomic actions. They have a Rancher cluster where they took Turbonomic actions to optimize the nodes. In doing so, they saved $500k in node costs. Unfortunately, due to the...
20 days ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 0 Under review

Easily identify nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infra, masters)

Easily identify in the UI the nodes in a Kubernetes cluster (workers, infrastructure and masters).
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) / UI & User Experience 1 Under review

Turbonomic recommendations for backup servers

Telefónica has HP Apollo Backup servers (ProLiant XL420 Gen10) integrated with Veritas NetBackup software. The backup is something that fills up over time and there is often no good criterion for deleting old backups or reducing retentions for cer...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / On-Premises (Hypervisor & Storage & Network) 2 Needs more information

Add a new column with sharing URL inside downloaded csv file of Turbo recommendations

Requests to include a column that includes the sharing URL for each recommendation.
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Future consideration

Auto-detect and exclude Hosts dedicated for maintenance/operational vacancy

Telefónica intentionally has some empty hosts, without load, exclusively to move load there during update/maintenance/obsolescence tasks. It is not a fixed rule, but it is usually one free host for every 8 or 9 hosts. This Telefónica's policy is a...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 2 Under review

Optimizing the VM Bursting Model

In the bursting model of VMs, I would like you to monitor the amount of credit accumulation and consumption and make optimization suggestions. For example, changing to a model with larger credits or to a model other than a burst model. ■AWS EC2 (T...
about 2 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 0 Under review