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

DevOps Automation

Showing 671 of 2061

Access more application process request information - scheduled time

Our deployment processes need to check several values that can affect how deployments are executed. For example, during regular deployments, we want to trigger a refresh on a mainframe cache. However, for weekend deployments, we prefer to wait for...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information

Update Jenkins plugin to support Base ClearCase

Update the Jenkins Plugin to support Base ClearCase. We do NOT use UCM since we have designed a frontend to ClearCase that replaces UCM. I'm really shocked that Base ClearCase was not included in the roll out of the Jenkins plugin. It doesn't requ...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Create 0 Submitted

"GIT views" for base clearcase

Provide "GIT views" feature for teams working with base clearcase.
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Code 0 Submitted

Control over Scheduled Processes Calendar

Hello, We have very specific deployment windows. For production, we only allow deployments to be scheduled on Sundays at 00:00. However, we want developers to be able to deploy to non-production environments during regular working hours. It would ...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information

Allow multiple roles to be selected in the 'Required Role' dropdown box against Application Processes

As administrators of UrbanCode Deploy, we would like to propose an enhancement to the Application Process configuration. Currently, the 'Required Role' dropdown box allows us to select only one role to restrict access to running a particular Appli...
about 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Not under consideration

Create Generic Process Step for Locking Snapshots

This request is to create a generic process that can lock a snapshot (versions and configuration) on a particular application. As a requirement for audit, all production deployments must lock their snapshot before deploying. Using an orchestration...
7 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 2

Support .NET Core 6.0 Desktop Applications and WPF in Rational Functional Tester

Currently RFT supports .NET applications until the .NET 4.6.1 version of Desktop Applications. Such .NET version is obsoleted from Microsoft in mid 2022 and Microsoft encourages to migrate applications on .NET Core 6.x applications. So new Desktop...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 3 Future consideration

UI improvements to help connect deployments to versions

Our users have compained about it being hard to see which version is being processed in a deployment. This of course can be found in the Manifest tab but it would be better to see it at the top of the deployment log tab. It would also be good to b...
5 months ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Needs more information

In Container deployments I should be able to set my Java Options from the helm chart values file

Currently java options seem to be set in the statefulset.yaml file (this example is for agents, but the idea is for agents, relays and servers). Currently I see this: - name: JDK_JAVA_OPTIONSvalue: "-Dcom.redhat.fips=false"- name: JAVA_TOOL_OPTION...
2 months ago in DevOps Automation / Code 0 Submitted

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...
about 3 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 3 Planned for future release