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 4161

Cloud Automation Manager support of X.509 client certificate for REST hooks in the service composer

Currently ICAM service composer REST hooks supports basic authentication with login and password. For some clients such as banks this is basic authentication method is not allowed anymore for machine to machine communication. Instead, SSO based me...
over 5 years ago in Cloud Pak for Multicloud Management Ideas 0 Not under consideration

Sharepoint Metrics Support

Customers are more frequently asking about the possibility to monitor their Sharepoint environment. Sharepoint is hosted on IIS and developed using .NET CLR. Although closed source, it should be possible to extract metrics from within IIS and corr...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Sensor 2 Future consideration

autoprofile support for aarch64

There are a lot of customers using aarch64 infrastructure. but now autoprofile seems only support x64.
almost 2 years ago in Instana 3 Planned for future release

Custom dashboards metric selection improvements in the legend / tooltip

The customer would like to have better support when identifying the outlying metric in a widget. Some ideas:* Sort the item in the tooltip according to the values* Only show items in the tooltip which have values* Show the whole legend as a table ...
over 3 years ago in Instana 1 Future consideration

Report for All Types of Failed Jobs

We would like an option in the IWS reporting tool to display failed jobs (ex: jobs that fail because there are no resources available.) If a job creates any kind of error, (failed/abended/etc.), we want to be able to see it in a report to keep tra...
over 3 years ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Increase the 256 byte limit of the Situation Take Action command string length.

Reflex situations (Take Action tab) can benefit from not having to manage, maintain and distribute scripts to servers across the estate as they are centrally managed vi the TEP client or CLI. Powerful shell automation logic can be achieved by stri...
almost 2 years ago in ITM/IBM APM 0 Future consideration

Add tracing support for Azure.Storage.Blobs package

The majority of our IO is to Azure Blob Storage Accounts. We would have far more insight into our application if calls via the Azure.Storage.Blobs package were traced with the Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.Linux and Instana.Tracing.Core.Rewriter.A...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / .NET 1 Not under consideration

Trace Pega solution (Java Based) at the Rules level.

Please Monitor Pega solution at the 'Rules' level. Currently, we are attempting to leverage the Configuration Based Java Tracing SDK - this is not allowing us to configure each rule and display it where it is easily tracked in the UI - this hinder...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Java 1 Future consideration

Customer wants to be informed which Azure Reserved Instances are not visible to the Turbo Azure Service Principal. This leads to improved cost information on savings.

See IBM Case TS011934194. In the discount inventory report available under Cloud, the column cost savings is wrongly indicated. Instead of calculating the savings by subtracting the PAYGO rate minus the 3 year RI reserved rate, the report is showi...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Billing & Costs & Discounts 2 Functionality already exists

Autotrace Webhook init resources

The current implementation of the autotracing webhook creates an init pod with low cpu and memory limits. For us this can result in some throttling while it starts and copies the files into the main pod. We would like the ability to have these val...
almost 2 years ago in Instana / Tracing 0 Future consideration