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

All ideas

Showing 6021

Ability to see all processes on host infrastructure information

Oftentimes, it would be useful for the client to see the entire process list for a certain host, and not just the top process list.
5 months ago in Instana / Sensor 0 Future consideration

GPFS Sensor

GPFS (Spectrum Scale) is an enterprise-grade solution for environments that require extremely high performance, scalability, and resilience.Its use is common in sectors where data access time and reliability are critical.Implementing monitoring an...
3 months ago in Instana / Agent 0 Under review

Add functionality to event rule to include a variable for the dynamic url for the job log

We would like to add the dynamic url to the job log for any job. We envision this might be best facilitated as one of the selectable variables for event rules. That way we could include in the body of the sendmail action, or to the payload sent to...
3 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Adding row count metrics to database query monitoring

By enabling database administrators to identify usage patterns and understand user interactions, it allows for optimization of inefficient queries that return a large number of records, leading to improved response times. This metric needs to be a...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Cross teams/areas 1 Future consideration

Add Search Functionality in Entity History Section for Improved Field Tracking

Currently, each entity has a history section where we can see the update history of each field. When there are only a few fields, the current UI works well. However, for entities with 100+ fields that are kept for long periods, tracking the histor...
3 months ago in Targetprocess / User Experience 2 Planned for future release

Add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI

Hi Team, Would you please consider to add Effective Costs and Savings from Rightsizing to Apptio BI? Right now, only on-demand is being displayed, as these costs are usually higher, they create wrong expectations within the organization. Thanks fo...
6 months ago in Cloudability / Apptio BI 0 Future consideration

Ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. 

Hi, the ask here is to have an ability to recover a workload estimate (if deleted) in Workload Planning. Or as an alternative, to have an archive option instead of just delete. Thanks
21 days ago in Cloudability / Workload Planning 1 Under review

Add resource id on Anomaly alerts/subscriptions

Idea : Is to add resource id on Anomaly alerts/subscription so that customer's can get an idea of the affected resources just through the subscription alert. While I do understand that link provided in the alert (redirecting to CLDY page) provided...
22 days ago in Cloudability / Anomaly Detection 0 Future consideration

Extend Cost Sharing functionality

Better Cost Sharing functionality multi-vendor. Cost Sharing in multiple Business Mappings but filtered in one view.
22 days ago in Cloudability / Cost Allocation and Sharing 0 Submitted

Build support for subscribing distribution lists to alerts (without the 'service account workaround')

Cloudability customers would like the ability to set up subscriptions (reports, alerts, anomalies, insights, etc) to be delivered to an exisiting distribution list. Today, the only way to do this is to create a service account using the distro lis...
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Other 0 Future consideration