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

Clear

IBM Turbonomic ARM

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed.

To have a builtin integration to unlock/lock Azure resource when a Turbonomic action is executed could avoid external developments.
12 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 3 Future consideration

Turbonomic Policy engine provides easy way for set affinity to newer generations of instance types when considering same size so tool does not suggest de-modernizing from db.8g.4xl to db.6g.4xl

Newer cloud Provider instance types may have price/performance benefits that customers are seeking. Customersmay have a policy and practice of running newer instance types (database, virtual machines, ...). It would be helpful if the Turbonomic po...
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Parking Support for Openshift Machines managed by MachineSets

Customers run OpenShift on top of CSP's like AWS, and would therefore benefit from both the efficiency and cost savings enabled by Turbonomic's parking functionality.
9 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 3 Future consideration

Ability to leverage Cloudability Business Mappings in Turbonomic

Turbonomic uses Cloudability/frontdoor to assign permissions. So there are hooks from Turbonomic to other applications. It would be amazing for Turbonomic to leverage Business Mappings from Cloudability. This would be extremely beneficial when att...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0 Under review

Ignore Button that will auto create a policy

In turbonomic, if an application owner identifies a Volume or VM, etc, that they would never want to do. It would be amazing if there was an ignore button that the Administrator could click on and it would auto-create a policy to ignore that one p...
3 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Future consideration

Turbonomic to support resource monitoring for IBM softwares delivered in virtual appliance form

IBM has a few software products that are delivered as virtual appliances. These services running in a VM deployed with a OVA template. Currently, Turbonomic evaluate them as a regular VM and may issue a resize actions based on the server metrics d...
6 months ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM 1 Not under consideration

See VM's Group Membership

I’d like to see what Turbo groups a server belongs to when scoped to that server.
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / UI & User Experience 1 Not under consideration

Adjust Self-Managed Turbonomic License to Match Contract Terms

As for self-managed Turbonomic license, currently, even for officially ordered licenses, the license file that customers register contains the following details: Expiration Date: 2122-12-31 Quantity: 999,999,999 This is essentially unlimited and s...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 0

Add Cloud IP Management to Turbonomic

The client has shown a keen interest in Turbonomic being able to monitor and automate actions related to IPs in the Cloud. Following a recent discussion with their Cloud Provider, they learned that IP prices are slated to surge by fivefold. Conseq...
over 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / General/Other 2 Not under consideration

expanded options for aggressiveness, rate of resize and observation period

Currently, Virtual machine aggressiveness, rate of resize, and observation period are set for all types of actions CPU, Memory, Up, and Down. There is no way to have these configured differently for each type of action. So at the moment, VM will s...
over 3 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Policies 0 Planned for future release