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

Reload certificate chain when one of the signer certicate expired during IHS runtime

Supposed we have 2 intermediate CA certificates which have the same key identifier and same public key in IHS SSL keystore. These 2 certificates are still within their validity period, which is not uncommon when a CA is rolling update their certif...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere traditional 0 Future consideration

Allow wildcard or mutiple entries, on an RDN entry in the controller.xml file

When configuring a collective, in the controller.xml file, we specify a collectiveCertificate rdn value - to allow members and the collector to talk to each other.We user RACF to create and store our certificates, where many of the fields are pre-...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 2 Not under consideration

Enable test authors to move test scripts between packages during refactoring

When refactoring code, it often becomes necessary to change the package structure. When RFT test scripts are organised in Java packages, it may also be required to refactor the layout of those packages. Assume that we have an RFT project and creat...
over 2 years ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 1 Not under consideration

Allow agent logs to be accessible from UCD server UI according to name pattern defined in agents log4j

Currently the "request agent logs" feature from UCD server UI only supports the agent log files in format agent.out.<INDEX>. We are working with teams which updated the agent log4j to alter the log file name to a daily naming syntax, e.g. ag...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 1 Future consideration

Automatic Email Notification using Functional Test Perspective

It would be good if we can have automatic email notification once tests complete/failed during execution in Functional Test Perspective. Currently there is no concrete solution for this. But we are looking for this as we have huge tests for which ...
over 1 year ago in DevOps Automation / Test UI 0 Not under consideration

[Copy] Provide an option that allows WebSphere Liberty database pool to maintain a minNumber of "warm" connections.

The current configuration options that are available in WLP do not allow for maintaining a minPoolSize number of connections in a given connection pool. Any events of connection aging (for example timeouts that can occur on the WLP side as well as...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration

When WelcomePage is disabled , Liberty will send 404 response which is missing CSP headers. Out box when WelcomePage is disabled , for any responses Liberty to add CSP policy

For reference [Content-Security-Policy (CSP) Header Quick Reference] ( https://content-security-policy.com/ )------Security-Policy header allows you to restrict which resources (such as JavaScript, CSS, Images, etc.) can be loaded, and the URLs th...
over 1 year ago in WebSphere Liberty 0 Future consideration

when configuring gatekeeping rules, we can only enter users and not teams/groups

with the current configuration we would need to add an enormous amount of users instead of just the teams and we would need to be constantly updating the rule as staff moves on
almost 4 years ago in DevOps Automation / Velocity 10 Planned for future release

Implement the possibility of preventing the use of licenses by UCD, when the limit is reached.

Today it is not possible to have control over the use of UCD licenses, as the tool allows the continuation of activities, even when the license limit has been reached. By not providing this option, the use of licenses is always subject to exceedin...
about 5 years ago in DevOps Automation / Deploy 8 Not under consideration

Liberty Member SSLCertificate auto renewal

The Liberty Collective Controller does not auto renew Liberty Member Certificates.
over 10 years ago in WebSphere Liberty 1 Not under consideration