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

IBM Cloud Pak System

Showing 26

Disable (unused) auto-scaling in ITM shared-service by default

Deliver the ITM system monitoring shared-service default with auto-scaling disabled. Current default ptypes of ITM have the auto-scaling feature enabled. This can lead to the auto cloning of the RTEMS VM by the system. The extra RTEMS VM however i...
over 3 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

CPS support for two NTP-appliances in master/slave setup

CPS support for two NTP-appliances in master/slave setupToday CPS uses the option to configure multiple NTP-servers (four or more) which debate on the time.The CPS state is determined from the default Redhat configuration on the PSM. We need CPS s...
over 1 year ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Robust framework for installation of patches on IBM Cloud Pak System

Feature to ensure automated installation of patches that are automatically validated for compatibility with the firmware version and registered to they are visible.
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Ability for clients to install patches on IBM Cloud Pak System without intervention of IBM SWAT

As a client we would like to be able to apply patches ourselves, without the need for IBM SWAT to help us do so.
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

F29: Stop using SMBv1 protocol for communication between BMLS and AXA Windows VM

SMBV1 protocol is considered highly unsecure. It is deactivated by default on Windows 2012/2016 serverCVE-2017-0144 : https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0144https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2016/09/16/stop-using-smb...
over 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Pure cli libraries aren't downloaded from the pure console (first request)

Pure cli libraries aren't downloaded from the pure console anymore (first request).
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

UI handling for environment profile web side is different than on other pages

The following PMS was solved via APAR IT29315: "70444,211,788" : can't add new multi rack environment profiles to existing shared service instances, browser hangs The APAR solved issue, but only one behavior is different then from the other UI han...
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Users with only-read access should be able to deploy patterns in a multi-system environment

A user can deploy virtual system patterns, virtual application patterns, and shared services to a multisystem environment.The placement alogorithm determines if all the VMs in the patterns will be placed(1) on one system or(2) across multiple syst...
about 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Ability to set 'Run-until' as default for selected env.profiles.

Ability to set 'Run-until' as default for selected env.profiles.For self-service and pattern development use cases, we need a way to enforce pattern instance deployments to set an expiration date.
over 4 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration

Improve Healthcheck report for NTP-server section

Improve Healthcheck report for NTP-server section.
almost 5 years ago in IBM Cloud Pak System 0 Not under consideration