Skip to Main Content
Integration


This is an IBM Automation portal for Integration 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 License Metric Tool (ILMT)

Cron schedule entries created under user "root" instead of "/etc/cron.d/"

Ideally it should be created under "/etc/cron.d/" to be compliant and upkeep of cron jobs
over 4 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 4 Future consideration

Vmm Tool connection ID to be included in the VM Manager Report

Vmm tool connection ID should be included in the VM Manager report in ILMT. This can help monitor and track duplicate vmm tool connection IDs - although there is a disclaimer in the documentation, users still copy vmm tool config files to new vmm ...
over 1 year ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 2 Not under consideration

Report for obsolete operation systems

Today customers have to look at the IBM subcapacity terms and conditions page to find out which operation plattforms and version as well as which hypervisiors and version are not subcapacity elegible anymore or will be removed soon, s. https://www...
about 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

Feature Request HCL BigFix with ILMT: Deactivate BigFix Client UDP Port 52311

We would need a functionality to deactivate the BigFix client UDP port 52311 that is accessible from the network on all machines that have the BigFix client installed. An open Port that could potentially enable an attacker to inherit root privilge...
8 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review

Feature Request HCL BigFix with ILMT: Supporting BigFix client is running an non root with sudo

We would need a functionality to to run BigFix clients an non-root user with sudo functionality. This has to be supported by IBM for valid ILMT reports/audits. Running a Linux/Unix deamon with root privileges is considered a security risk in our c...
8 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Under review

Ability to edit and remove a tag completely from ILMT

Instance tags can be defined using the classification panel via procedure: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/license-metric-tool?topic=reports-adding-removing-tags However, a typo in a tag can not be changed once it is been added. A created tag can also...
over 3 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

Improvement for CIT scanner and wscansw of LMT

LMT scans for software signatures etc via the CIT Scanner and wscansw process.When the software scan is running, it is somehow traversing all the directories andscanning for all files. If the scanner would collect the number of files and their siz...
over 7 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Future consideration

ILMT REST API be able to edit a supress/exclude comment of an instance

Hello, We want to modify the comment of a line already excluded or deleted with the method : PUT https://hostname:port/api/sam/v2/software_instances https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/license-metric-tool?topic=v2-classifying-software#put_software...
over 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 1 Not under consideration

Multiple (disconnected) datasources, disconnected scanner config setup_config.ini, REST API

Some of my customers using an existing ILMT Lite environment with one disconnected datasource and want to extend that with additional disconnected datasources to split the systems, e.g. the integration of DataPower system installations and “normal...
10 months ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release

Create a feild to have tokens expire and notifications sent in advance that they will expire in 30 days.

Having a field for token expiration will allow the tool to track this in an automated fashion vs manually tracking. The token can have an expiration period chosen when requesting or regenerating it based on the security requirements for my company...
over 2 years ago in IBM License Metric Tool (ILMT) 0 Planned for future release