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

Showing 800

Add Eclipse View for Bill of Material

add aditional view for Build Forge Eclipse Plugin for Bill of Material
over 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge 3 Not under consideration

Connect Eclipse Problem list to BuildForge

Compile error in the build log shall be available in the Eclipse problem list for easy navigation to error in the source.This should be done by use of log filters. So, the error or warning filters shall be put into the list.
over 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration

Refresh of Build Forge Eclipse Plugin

The Build Forge Views within Eclipse should refresh automatically (like the WebConsole)
over 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration

Show names of enviroment variables in Eclipse

The input mask for the environment variables shown on project start shall visualize the environment variable names like in the webconsole. At the moment the values are displayed.
over 11 years ago in Rational Other / Build Forge / Change 3 Not under consideration

Form Field navigation

Two issues here:1) ctrl left/right only jumps on whitespace. Should be able to navigate on language tokens (e.g. '::' or '.' or changes in capitalization). 2) Double-click should have rotating toggle. # all of field not word/capitalization separat...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 7 Not under consideration

Helper to sort

Generally having some visible organization within a context is considered a maintainability enhancer. E.g. there is a standard GNAT warning about non-alphabetical units in a scope. Theory is the IDE outline of the file should be easy to use (aplha...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 9 Not under consideration

RSART Hang when moving attributes/operations in class diagrams

Class diagrams allow the user to move attributes & operations from one class to another. If this is done (e.g. to promote an operation from a class to its parent class), the tool hangs. The Move Element dialog box is displayed and reports "Per...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 5 Not under consideration

RSART- build project with multiple active transforms enables

Does code sync on multiple unrelated projects in workspace before compiling the single project you told it to build. Turn on view 'Progress View' and you can see the names of the unrelated classes that are being code synced. Suspect that if you ha...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 5 Not under consideration

RSART- Go to Source Model Elements should do something when outside a USR block

it currently does nothing. if there is any USR block in file it should pick one (nearest, next, whatever) and go there. Mattias has the following comment: The command does something - it navigates in the Project Explorer to thenearest capsule. Of ...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 6 Not under consideration

Code gen should auto indent for scope

Currently if the code is at left margin in code edit view, thats how it appears in generated source. Problem is that should be INDENT spaces in based on being in function braces. Code in nested classes should be N x INDENT spaces in based on level...
almost 12 years ago in Rational Analysis, Design & Construction / Software Architect Real Time Edition 6 Not under consideration