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IBM Cloud - Structured Ideas


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against IBM Cloud and its 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).


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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.

IBM Cloud Support Center (https://cloud.ibm.com/unifiedsupport/cases/form) – Use this site for any IBM Cloud defect or support need.

Stack Overflow (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ibm-cloud) – Use this site for IBM Cloud technical Q&A using the tag "ibm-cloud".

ideasibm@us.ibm.com - Use this email to suggest enhancements to the Ideas process or request help from IBM for submitting your Ideas.

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IBM Resource Access governance reports

I want to be able to answer a simple question when asked by an Auditor - Who has access to your COS Bucket? Shockingly there is no way to generate an access report from a resource such as COS to see what service ID's and User ID's have access. If ...
over 4 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Allow students to get credits without credit card details

Students are increasingly using cloud services for educational purpose. However, many a times credit card becomes a hurdle since students usually don't own a one. Therefore, if IBM cloud could consider allowing students to subscribe for $200 credi...
over 4 years ago in Billing 2 Delivered

Update No in Case

When we were using the SoftLayer Customer Portal, the ticket displayed "Update No".However, in the Case of IBM Cloud Console, Update No is not displayed in Case.This is very inconvenient for efficient Case exchange with you.Therefore, please impro...
about 5 years ago in Support 1 Delivered

Feature to delete resource groups

Customer has experimentation projects where resources live for a short period of time (i.e. Proof Of Concept). Customer creates resource groups to separate those resources from the rest of cloud. After the end of PoC, customer would like to delete...
about 5 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Resource group as parameter for cli commands

When querying or updating resources that are tied to a resource group, you first have to target this specific resource group. That retarget takes quite a while and is also cumbersome when chaining commands. Therefore it would be nice, if you could...
over 5 years ago in CLI 1 Delivered

Support call-back number

need a way to have support team call us back on provided number; esp helpful for non-US teams since the support telephone line is US-based.
over 5 years ago in Support 1 Delivered

Automation and DevOps oriented bx tools

e.g. bx logging log-download created thousands of lines of the progress --- SNIP --- 64.00 KiB / 13.00 MiB 0.48% 3.11 MiB/s 00m04s 64.00 KiB / 13.00 MiB 0.48% 2.07 MiB/s 00m04s 64.00 KiB / 13.00 MiB 0.48% 1.52 MiB/s 00m04s 64.00 KiB / 13.00 MiB ...
almost 6 years ago in CLI 3 Delivered

Add CIS Benchamrk Images to IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud need to offer CIS Benchmark images. Other cloud providers have this as part of their portfolio: https://www.cisecurity.org/hardened-images/
over 6 years ago in Compliance 2 Delivered

New region status

It seems IBM Cloud release new region : AP-North. Currently I can order Kubernetes Service in AP-North region and Multi-regions in TOK02 04 05. Then I can select AP-North region for Cloudant. I am sure the services can be ordered from console.blue...
over 6 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

bx cli improvement

"bx cf spaces" does not have an option to turn off headers in the output, nor output to json, as other bx cli commands do. Currently I have to script the output to remove superfluous information, if I could just ouput json then it would make life ...
almost 7 years ago in CLI 1 Delivered