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

Showing 1020

Alert on New CSP Instance Creation for Early Cost Risk Detection

The customer has requested to be able to setup anomaly alerts that trigger when a new instance is created within a CSP. Since new instances lack historical cost data to detect deviations from the mean they would not alert by default, but they coul...
about 2 months ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Delivered

ITNM Database finder support for MS SQL database

Currently ITNM database finder only supports DB2 and Oracle. Our inventory database on MS SQL database server. We want to use ITNM database finder method to discover the devices in MS SQL database.
8 months ago in Tivoli Network Manager 0 Delivered

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab

Variance analysis in the Contracts tab would be a useful feature to include, to mirror existing functionality in the Labor and Summary tabs. This would allow us to see what changed vs prior plans at the detailed contract level.
3 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 1 Delivered

Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required.

Instana monitoring is taking 10-15 mins to refresh time to capture the data from the server, instant monitoring is required. This is causing delay in detection of message wait, subsystem and other alerts which depends on Instana backend console re...
6 months ago in Instana / IBM i 1 Delivered

Integration - Cisco NSO (NetCONF)

I propose the addition of NetCONF protocol support within Rapid Network Automation. This enhancement has been requested by several telecommunications and large enterprise prospects. Implementing NetCONF support will enable the integration with net...
over 1 year ago in Concert Workflows 2 Delivered

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories

Host Agent sensor needs the ability to monitor files and directories. Want capabilities that are similar to ITM v6. Customers use this capability to indicate whether their applications are performing properly. For example, if there are too many fi...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Common 3 Delivered

Add Object Summary widget to DI that automatically shows all indicator values on separate charts for the selected object.

Makes it easier to see all related indicators and their values at a glance vs. having to manually select each one. Similar to SevOne SURF object summary functionality.
9 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 1 Delivered

Integrate Instana with Slack using chat.postmessage API.

To integrate Instana with Slack, Instana documentation suggesting to have webhooks. But our environment does not support outbound webhooks and to post messages to a Slack channel we need to use chat.postmessage API. Could you please suggest workar...
3 months ago in Instana / Integrations 2 Delivered

Support for Spring Boot 3.x

We currently support Spring Boot versions 1.x and 2.x Spring Boot 3.0 is now available, and we need to have official support for it as customers begin to upgrade.
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Java / Sensor 7 Delivered

Allow to delete wasted files from Turbonomic UI

Turbonomic recommends actions to delete wasted storage files on datastores. I want the ability to manually accept these and have the files be deleted on the vCenter datastore.