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 1931 of 1931

State Change History of the Test Plan is required in reporting

For reporting purpose, we need the state change history of the Test Plan in RQM. This is required to check the timestamp difference between Test Plan states.
over 3 years ago in Rational Other / Change 1 Not under consideration

Visualize Asset Color Selection

Within Visual Browse, we would like to have the capability to assign specific colors to specific asset types. It would be nice to have the ability to always use the same color for the same asset type.
almost 7 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Rational Function Tester support of ADOBE Reader DC

We upgraded all our systems and products to use Adobe Reader DC and we are not able to update the objects for the new version of the Reader which were earlier recorded and stored in our object library, of Rational Functional Tester. The recorded t...
about 7 years ago in Rational Automated Software Quality / Functional Tester 2 Not under consideration

Improve Usability of "Select Event for Message" Dialog

Extend the „Select Event for Message“ dialog with an additional option: “Show only connected ports” When this option is enabled:1. Hide all ports from the “From Port” list, that are not already connected to one port of the “To Port” list (and vice...
about 7 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 2 Not under consideration

setLockTimeout in client for writes

The ObjectMap.setLockTimeout method only applies to get operations; it does not apply to write operations. Write operations always use the configured lock timeout. We would like the ability to use the setLockTimeout method for write operations in ...
about 7 years ago in WebSphere eXtreme Scale 0 Not under consideration

Allow different port ranges for each destination in ClearCase MultiSite

We want to be able to use a single “proxy” host for CCMS routing but have different port ranges for each destination. In other words, to support a route line like below with a “proxy” host and 3 destination hosts but the host proxy can be configur...
about 7 years ago in ClearCase and ClearQuest / ClearCase 1 Future consideration

Request for enhancement to RAM eclipse client

We are attempting to use the RAM Eclipse Client to move assets from an existing legacy RAM 7522 environment to a new RAM 7547 environment. We have noticed that as part of this effort that the RAM Eclipse client does not automatically move lifecycl...
over 3 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 0 Future consideration

Add REST call to add multiple version properties

As a consumer of the UCD Server REST API, I would like the ability to set multiple version properties with a single API call rather than multiple consecutive calls in order to streamline the process.
over 3 years ago in UrbanCode / Deploy 1 Future consideration

RAM - Move data between RAM instances/environments

In this release, 7.5.2, it is not possible to backup and restore data from one RAM to another. This was possible in 7.5.1.1. We would like functionality to be able to do this, without coding ourselves. Using Libraries is not an option, we have 12....
over 10 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Asset Manager 3 Future consideration

How to Enable CGI in Rational Change 5.3 and 5.3.1

In previous version of Rational Change (5.2), we were able to enable CGI scripting.IBM had a tech note on how to implement:http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21324973(See attachment for Tech Note) We need IBM to document how to enabl...
over 10 years ago in Rational Other / Change 6 Not under consideration