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 487

Gov Account Name

It would be helpful to have the Account Name for gov accounts populated with the AWS account name the same way the Commercial account is. Currently the Account Name field contains the account number for gov accounts. Most people do not remember th...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Cloudability Government 1 Under review

Historical reports on custom fields

Currently, the TargetProcess tool does not support history reporting on custom fields. We have a custom field on entities called "Blocked," and we would like to monitor the time an entity spends in the blocked state. This functionality is crucial ...
about 2 months ago in Targetprocess / Reports 0 Under review

Incidents raised by AIOps should raise or lower priority if later Alerts meet the requirements to do so

Operations teams expect that the priority of Incidents generated and reported by AIOps to reflect the current priority of the underlying issue, not the priority of the issue at the time of Incident creation. Currently, an Incident is raised at a s...
3 months ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 0 Under review

Alert Suppession with multiple NOT conditions is not working as expected

Alert Suppression with multiple NOT conditions in INSTANA is not functioning as expected. When configuring suppression rules that include more than one NOT condition (e.g., NOT tag1=value1 AND NOT tag2=value2), alerts are still being triggered for...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Alert 0 Under review

Adding additional tab to the services/kubernetes namespace dashboard with custom information

"We have a Service Catalog that includes the service name, service description, and contact information (name, phone, email, etc.) of the programmer or team responsible for support. Similarly, we also have a Namespace Catalog with comparable infor...
about 2 months ago in Instana / User Interface 0 Under review

Provide Exclude option for Apache Tracing

We want to adopt Web EUM Auto Instrumentation through Apache tracing module.We check the following url how to match the request.https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=websites-automatic-instrumentation#match-expressions-ex...
about 2 months ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Under review

Allow for the customization for additional months of data refetch

Credits are often issued for charges further back than the current or previous month. Allow for the customization to refetch data back multiple months by default, preventing a manual refetch process
5 months ago in Cloudability / Other 1 Under review

To not share the sensitive column data to Costing while using CTI or ADM.

To not share the sensitive column data to Costing while using CTI or ADM.
5 months ago in Apptio / Data Sharing (ADM) 0 Under review

Add configurable AI agents

The idea is to add AI agents as a concept. The user may create multiple agents with distinct configurations like entities to "read" triggers to launch the agent, ... Two examples jump into my mind: 1. when a new support case is created or a new co...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / Other 0 Under review

Business Monitoring: Display the actual endpoints under Services tab instead of showing the JVM under Top Services

In IBM Business Automation Workflow, we usually create business workflows/processes at the top level. A workflow contains human, system activities and gateways. A human activity usually contains Script blocks to execute code, service flows for sys...
5 months ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Under review