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

Pinned ideas

PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?

All ideas

Showing 1562

Import actuals as Actual in Forecasts

Importing actuals as 'Other' in forecasts confuses end users. We typically reserve the 'Other' tab for planning purposes for our other costs, distinct from costs planned in the 'Contracts' tab. Importing actuals as 'Actual' and using a different p...
8 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Forecast vs actual spend charts - Apptio BI

Experiencing issues in Apptio BI with TBM studio data when  trying to create customer version of a forecast vs actual spend charts.  The spend for current month populates forward when using overlay of visuals to show a forecast vs actual...
12 months ago in Apptio / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

External Code in Actuals

Looking to match up the resource external code from the labor tab to the actuals that come in at the resource level. That way we can identify when people have changed positions. 
7 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Attach PDFs to Contracts in ITPF

As a Cost Center Owner, I’d like to be able to attach our PDF contract to our contract line item so that I can easily identify, align and manage our contracts with our vendors.  I’ll know it’s complete when I can look up a contract name ...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

Ability to change Comparison variance sign

Would like the ability to display the comparison variance as either B/(W) or (B)/W
over 1 year ago in Apptio / Apptio Planning 0 Future consideration

To display count of selected documents at the time of Check In / Revert Changes

This helps apptio users to be more cautious of what data been checking in and can validate between expected enhancements to actual work to avoid unnecessary check in's / revertion.  This applies to TBM Studio where users shall have option to...
11 months ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Time Period based on current month

As a Service Owner, I’d like to be able to switch between current month and month in arrear reports without having to update the time period so that I can see the data in those reports.  I’ll know it’s complete when I can ...
6 months ago in Apptio / Apptio Essentials Portfolio 0 Future consideration

Properly validate formula in pipeline step

Currently if you have this formula =If(value< 99999, use-this, use-that) If use-this or use-that are invalid syntactically (for example do not exist) then we expect an error to be shown. However, if *current* data does not exercise one path the...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

Numeric sort doesn't always sort as numeric

There are a number of places in Studio where sorting on a numeric field does not produce the expected result for negative values (appears to be sorting as a label).  For example in the Table step in the transform pipeline, an ascending sort y...
over 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration

List Of Component IDs

As part of ‘Report Search’ Apptio can gather component IDs without looking at the URLs. I ask if this can be done at a project/group/report levels, to gather all IDs and export to Excel.  I was recently in a situation where I had to gather th...
about 1 year ago in Apptio / TBM Studio - Data/Model Studio 0 Future consideration