Skip to Main Content
Cloud Platform


This is an IBM Automation portal for Cloud Platform 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 Terminal emulator support on Docker image
Docker utility should support Functional Perspective test scripts. Slack Issue https://devops---testing.slack.com/archives/CGV8AAGCD/p1645022341509149

All ideas

Showing 102

Display logs in ZOS agent started task in EBCIDC or display nothing

Any ASCII or other (unreadable) data that is not EBCIDC should be prevented from ending up in the SDSF(spool). This IBM Idea has been opened to track the work being done by product development to prevent the unreadable / garbage data, related to t...
2 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Additional Authentication methods for Secret Store - LDAP

Hello everyone, current Secret store in UCD supports connection to Vault with RoleId bases authentication. I would like to ask if it would be possible to extend the authentication methods by LDAP (https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/auth/ld...
4 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 2 Planned for future release

Provide documented API to create or update Authentication and Authorization Realm

To automate the configuration of UCD server we are trying to do the configuration using Ansible playbook so that it will be consistent in all UCD servers. Currently documented CLI is not available to to create or update Authentication and Authoriz...
5 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

Include embedded products: BAW and ODM

I like the automation feature but it is incomplete without the embedded products. For eg, I cannot use its features on WebSphere that is underneath the BAW or ODM products. So far, I have discovered that even WAS that is installed as part of the p...
7 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

can the Migration Toolkit for Application Binaries and/or the Migration Toolkit for Application Source be updated to look for setContextClassLoader calls and warn of potential class loader problems

There are slight differences within WAS and Liberty from a classloading perspective. Sometimes when applications are migrated from WAS to Liberty. You run into some TCCL issues. The solution was to delete the line of code where the context class l...
7 months ago in WebSphere Migration Toolkits 0 Planned for future release

IDEA #2 - PRIORITY #2 - Enhance WSA to enable en masse remediation selection and application. Currently, WebSphere Automation provides the apply for a user to select a single vulnerability.

Upon selection of a single vulnerability, a user can select only a single registered WebSphere instance for remediation application. Unfortunately, this behavior is serial and singular that does not conform to scaling needs for a security operatio...
8 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

This IDEA is part 2 of https://ideas.ibm.com/ideas/WASINTOPS-I-107 . it builds on top of IDEA WASINTOPS-I-109 and extend to multiple servers. The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect tr...
8 months ago in WebSphere Automation 0 Planned for future release

Use systemd to run UCD agent as a service in Linux servers

We have been using init.d to run our UCD agents as service in our Linux servers, but systemd could be used as an alertnative of init.d because it is a backward compatibility for RHEL 7 or above servers.
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 3 Planned for future release

To enhance WebSphere Automation (WSA) to install and rollback multiple iFixes for a list of WebSphere Application Servers

The current design of the product focuses on detecting unresolved security vulnerabilities that affect traditional WebSphere and Liberty servers. It facilitates the application of security fixes one by one on each server.Some customers have hundre...
9 months ago in WebSphere Automation 1 Planned for future release

Disable accounts

Instead of deleting accounts we should have the option to disable them. We would also like the option of setting a time period where if a user has not logged on for x days their account is automatically disabled.
9 months ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 5 Planned for future release