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

One-Click Configuration Backup & Restore for Devops deploy tool

What We Need Add a button in IBM Devops Deploy tool that exports ALL configurations (components, applications, resources, templates, settings, etc.) into one file. Then be able to import that file to restore everything. Why We Need It Problem ...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Future consideration

The license for IBM Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) should be included in WebSphere Application Server for z/OS.

Customers plan to migrate traditional WebSphere Application Server for z/OS to Liberty for z/OS.To support this migration, customers intend to use IBM Bob together with IBM Application Modernization Accelerator (AMA) to generate deployment plans a...
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Planned for future release

Administration and application traffic on different ports

For better security, an application server's application traffic can be initiated from the web server in the DMZ, but it should not be possible for administration traffic. For Liberty profile, it is difficult to achieve.
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

Simplifying the installation process for fix packs and patches

Currently, updating involves installing these fixes at the Deployment Manager (dmgr), which only updates one side of the cluster. The second side requires manual updating to each application server on that cluster, which can be cumbersome. A signi...
over 2 years ago in WebSphere Automation 3 Not under consideration

Upgrade Agent have limitation of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer Agent - which is problematic if customer have 50.000 UCD Agents to upgrade

Upgrade Agent feature have limitation described on documentation as: "Updating many agents simultaneously can have a significant affect the server. As a rule-of-thumb, limit the number of simultaneous upgrades to 10 or fewer." Which is problematic...
over 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 4 Not under consideration

OpenTelemetry Tracing support of WOLA

Looking for OTEL to support tracing for WAS to CICS
6 months ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration

Support for namespaces in generated code

DevOps Model RealTime / Code RealTime should support namespaces in the generated code.
3 months ago in Heritage / Model RealTime 0 Submitted

Increase the read limit on ClearQuest multiline strings through OSLC

IBM ClearQuest truncates multiline text fields retrieved by OSLC to 2000 characters by default. This size can be changed on the server. My understanding is that OSLC does not enforce a hard limit even though implementations like ClearQuest can tru...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation 0 Under review

Add support for Personal Access Tokens to authenticate with the OSLC REST API

It is very common for applications with REST APIs to support Personal Access Tokens (PATs). They act as a secure, user-level alternative to standard passwords for authenticating scripts, CLI tools, and integrations. PATs allow users to connect ext...
3 months ago in DevOps Automation 0 Under review

IBM WebSphere Liberty Workload Identity

Request summary Enhance the existing jwtBuilder component (and the associated com.ibm.websphere.security.jwt.JwtBuilder API) to support secure, programmatic issuance of application-identity JWT tokens. These tokens represent the calling Liberty ap...
3 months ago in WebSphere Liberty 0