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 3568

Increase/decrease alert severity based on number alert occurrences

Goal is to minimize impact of flapping alerts. By using this feature SevOne users could set up exact number of alert occurrences after which they want to be notified in warning/error/critical severity. It will reduce spending time on alerts that a...
11 months ago in SevOne / Configuration and Administration 2 Planned for future release

Instana UI - show change history of instana configuration changes in the gui

We are running enterprise monitoring with instana. Changes to instana configuration such as creation or change to application perspectives, alerts, maintenance windows etc. should displayed to users (eg. as already possible with button history for...
about 1 year ago in Instana / Application perspectives 0 Future consideration

Consolidated device inventory report and ad hoc email feature

Currently sevone device inventory report is very limited with fields. Even though sevone have the data many of the device properties are unable to use it in report without additional customization. Suppose if a device kept in maintenance , we won'...
11 months ago in SevOne / Data Insight (DI) 4 Future consideration

Include feature "zone" or "label" on Serverless entity like AWS S3, fargate, etc

Customer will be able to group entities based on their own zone category. Everyone who monitor AWS resources (except host-based like EC2) will need this. Put "zone" in the configurable params ie for s3 (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observab...
8 months ago in Instana / Common / Sensor 1 Future consideration

Graphical Representation of all Jobstreams in the WorkLoad Designer

We would like to have a graphic representation of all the Jobstreams present in the database. Currently, this representation is possible in the current plan but we do not have the equivalent on the Jobstreams present in the WorkLoad Designer
about 4 years ago in Workload Automation 1 Future consideration

Alert for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE)

We are submitting a Instana feature request for the introduction of Built-in Events specifically for Integration Nodes in IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE). The current lack of alerts when the ACE Integration Node is stopped poses a challenge, as A...
11 months ago in Instana / ACE/IIB / Sensor 0 Planned for future release

Set alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage

Please add option to set the event/alert to monitor Kubernetes Nodes CPU and Memory Usage in Instana events section.
4 months ago in Instana / Kubernetes 6 Functionality already exists

IMS Connect support with Instana on z

We have transaction flow with IMS transaction exposed thru IMS Connect. This is not supported flow by Instana on z
8 months ago in Instana / IBM Z 1 Functionality already exists

Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards

Instana ingests lots of data and we need different ways to represent it, one of the things that can be helpful is to have a Sankey diagram for Custom dashboards.
8 months ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 0 Future consideration

Option to truncate context field in Netcool SCOM probe

When the context attribute of the alarm object SCOM sends to the SCOM probe is very large, the SCOM probe crashes. The problem can be solved when the probe truncates the context field (and all related context_xxx fields) to a certain number of byt...
almost 2 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps 2 Planned for future release