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 4515

Dashboards: Add the setting to Hide Empty Lanes for list widgets

It's only possible to hide empty lanes if you open the full screen version of the view. It would be useful to have this setting controlled on the widget level.
12 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Dashboard: Add a widget option with a text table

It's possible to add a harcoded table to the text widget, however, in order to add/remove row a column, you need to hardcode another table. It would be useful to have the option of the ready table where you can add the text alongside with the text...
12 months ago in Targetprocess / Views (Lists, Boards, Roadmaps, Dashboards) 0 Under review

Connectivity into Apptio via AWS

Hi I know Apptio is standalone application, and it could be possibly hosted anywhere. Now it's hosted on AWS. I work in large organization, and we are also using AWS, which is trusted partner for us. It makes it much easier from data governanc...
12 months ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Submitted

Deploying POP without the need for a Kubernetes cluster

We want to deploy a Synthetic Monitoring POP in a remote location in order to perform synthetic tests. The location does not provide a Kubernetes cluster of any flavour which blocks our use case. We would like to deploy a POP on an Android device ...
6 months ago in Instana / Synthetic 1 Not under consideration

Plan migration of cloud workloads back to on-premise datacenter.

Turbonomic allows us to plan a move of on-prem workloads to cloud (Azure), but we want the ability to plan moves of cloud workloads back on-prem. We are maintaining on-prem resources to allow for bringing our servers home, but need to make sure th...
about 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Planning 0 Future consideration

IWS Agent installation on Rocky Linux

would be better if IBM supports IWS agent installation on Rocky Linux.
8 months ago in Workload Automation 0 Future consideration

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard

Add CPU Usage and Memory Usage Metrics for K8s Services, Deployments to custom dashboard, From the attached screenshot, you can observe it does not have metric for memory and cpu usage of a deployment, service, daemonset. Please add it to all avai...
almost 3 years ago in Instana / Kubernetes 4 Functionality already exists

Datalink: "Time Period" selection should be available in the front page

There are connectors which need to run monthly for multiple months due to changes in the previous periods. In order to load this in Apptio we need to either adjust manually each time the name of the file (with the month and year) or to go inside e...
almost 2 years ago in Apptio / Data Connectivity (Datalink) 0 Future consideration

Permissions to Restrict Only Check In or Check Out

We have multiple developers of varying levels working in TBM Studio. We would like some of these users to have the ability to Check Out tables and reports in TBM Studio so they can create a copy or see additional options, while restricting their a...
about 1 month ago in Apptio / User Management & Login 0 Submitted

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service

Commitment Portfolio - Customer want to set the alerts based on Usage family and Service
about 1 month ago in Cloudability / Rate Optimization 1 Future consideration