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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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Core Platform Services

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control buildpack update frequency

Although the approximate 1 month buildpack updated frequency is appreciated by a large segment of our customers - there are a number of enterprise customers which have longer application and maintenance cycles than 1 month. What this means is that...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

Create a "bluemix" Ansible module for automating app and service deployments

I recently wrote a blog that explored the possibility of using Ansible to handle provisioning and deployment orchestration for IBM Bluemix container apps. You can find the article and demo code here: http://greenchile.io/deploying-ibm-bluemix-cont...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Hide Sensitive environment variable data from admins

While uploading some sensitive credentials for an application (DB user/password, etc), one way to do is through the user provided services. These variables are visible to the administrator in the console in clear. There could be a way to categori...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Dashboard display of services that need attention (upgrades, discontinuation)

What if the dashboard for IBM Cloud has the ability to display items that need special attention such upgrade or depreciation notice. i.e. if any RabbbitMQ 3.7 exists, 3.7 will be discontinued 9-10, Or your IKS cluster is 2 weeks away from falling...
over 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Future consideration

DataPower Segmentation

Currently the Access Point to a Bluemix Local instance is based on a Datapower pair (HA configuration). This DP pair is facing all the input traffic to Applications deployed on Bluemix, although this traffic belongs to different Organizations that...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Notify you by email if a service fails

A forum post asked whether there was a feature in Bluemix for sending service alerts by email. The request comes from the following Stack Overflow post that is centered on the Secure Gateway service: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34358809/bl...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration

DEAs Isolation

1. Isolate at network level, DEA Containers & DEA Pools belonging to different Organizations at 2. Isolate at network level DEA Pools belonging to different Orgs from Cloud Foundry Control Components of the Bluemix instance.
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 5 Not under consideration

Ability to change the suffix bluemix.net by something else such as mycloud.net?

In the DNS Specifications, Bluemix Local has 3 wildcard redirects: bluemix.net, mybluemix.net, and custom. A client is requesting to be able to replace the bluemix.net DNS by its own such mycompany.cloud.net This client is asking because this is...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration

Admins should be able to hide runtimes & boilerplates

Admins should be able to hide runtimes & boilerplates.
over 7 years ago in Administration 4 Not under consideration

Should be able to View All Support Tickets Opened by Our Team

Currently there is no way to view support tickets opened by everyone on my team.
about 7 years ago in Support 4 Not under consideration