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

API Endpoint to Get list of all Component Processes for a given Component

We have a requirement to get all Component Process list for a given Component. Can we have an API endpoint that we can use to get this info? For Example - If a component has 5 processes, then API endpoint should return 5 process names regardless o...
9 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Under review

"Remember Repository" option in Clearquest Login for SSO authentication

With SSO authentication, "Remember User ID" saves login name but still require user intervention to select Repository in case there are multiple repositories. The requirement is to add another option "Remember Repository" so that users can logon t...
about 2 years ago in Heritage / ClearQuest 1 Future consideration

SERVERWLM Support for z/OS Connect

In order to achieve high availability in z/OS Connect, the product documentation (https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-connect/zosconnect/3.0?topic=availability-sysplex-distributor) recommends use of a DVIPA to distribute workload between multiple LPAR...
almost 3 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Utility to update ALBD service credentials

For previous versions of ClearCase (<9.x) there was a utility provided by IBM to update the ALBD credentials while storing the password in an encrypted format (CCALBDPW.exe). That utility does not work starting with ClearCase 9.x. Need an equiv...
over 7 years ago in Heritage / ClearCase 3 Not under consideration

Add support for unsupported objects in Websphere configure - partial apply step

Please add support in Websphere configuration - partial apply step for applying configuration for following objects: Resource Environment Provider (REP), Resource Environment Entries (REE), Resource Adapters, J2C connection factories and shared li...
almost 9 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2 Not under consideration

Liberty z/OS -J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) to DB2 (setDB2ClientUser)

Liberty z/OS applications require audit and logging in DB2. We need to know who made the changes in the database records. The idea is to pass to the DB2 the J2EE end-user(the WAS principal) and put it on the setDB2ClientUser for the DB2 connection...
over 4 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

Support FIPS 140-3 for z/OS

The IBMJCEPlusFIPS cryptography module was certified for FIPS 140-3 by NIST in August 2024 and is supported on most platforms (as mentioned in the Operational environments section) for production use in IBM SDK for Java 8.0.8.30 or later. The IBMJ...
9 months ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Planned for future release

Enhance JAX-RS 2.0 client implementation to make it use WAS SSLSetting defined in the cell automatically

See also CASE TS005178606.
over 5 years ago in WebSphere traditional 1 Future consideration

RPT 11.0.4 Agent - Add Oracle Linux as a supported OS

We are running our ‘DevOps Test Performance’(previously RPT) agents on Oracle Linux. We've been told OEL is not a supported OS. At this time, we are able to execute our tests using the agents, but we are unable to monitor their system metrics(CPU,...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test Performance 2 Not under consideration

Implement DHE ciphers in IBM HTTP Server to provide Forward Secrecy to clients that do not support ECDHE ciphers

We use IBM HTTP Server 8.5.5 as HTTPS gateway in front of WebSphere Application Server portal system to service a multitude of different, external clients via internet. Those clients are outside our scope of influence, so we cannot dictate securit...
almost 11 years ago in WebSphere traditional 2 Not under consideration