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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.

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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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Add support for ed25519 ssh keys

At the moment IBM Cloud only supports RSA keys. Please add support for ed25519 which is much shorter and more secure.
almost 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

What is your credit card number - is solving the WRONG PROBLEM

With the myriad of shortcomings and issues with ibm cloud billing, requiring a credit number for a new ibm cloud account is forcing serious questions about IBM's tactics and intentions within customer organizations. A customer purchased a $100K su...
about 2 years ago in Billing 1 Delivered

Allow all events to got a single Activity Tracker instance of our choosing

When we automate the creation of new sub-accounts, they currently will require an Activity Tracker in Frankfurt as well as Activity Trackers for other regions where resources may exist. This means we will always need two ATs. We would rather just ...
almost 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 8 Delivered

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 3 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 3 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...
over 4 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...
over 4 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 4 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.
almost 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 ...
about 5 years ago in CLI 3 Delivered