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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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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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My ideas: Security

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As a Bluemix Dedicated and Local customer, I need the ability to have a Single Sign On service to manage users effectively

Currently I have to load my LDAP into Dedicated or Local, and after that point Bluemix is disconnected from my LDAP. This makes managing Bluemix difficult because now I have to staff someone to try and keep Bluemix in sync with my company LDAP (e....
about 8 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration

About changing the EMAIL address of the SoftlayerID user

There are still many users using SoftlayerID on the IBM Cloud portal. However, recently, IBM Cloud made it impossible to change their email address on their SoftlayerID user profile. Please revert this specification, and restore the ability for So...
almost 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Not under consideration

Security Insights Key scanning

AWS uses their “AWS Trusted Advisor” to scan for AWS credentials and security keys within software repositories. We need to have the same capability for Security Insights (SCC) to scan repositories for IBM Cloud API keys
almost 3 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration

Display "SoftLayer ID" in IAM Manage IBM Portal

I'd like to Display Column "SoftLayer ID". In our management method, the"SoftLayer ID" has the same name, but only the"SoftLayer ID" is different.The new portal does not display the"SoftLayer ID", so it is confusing because it cannot be operated w...
about 5 years ago in Identity and Access Management 4 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud 2FA Prompt Less Frequently

The current implementation of 2FA prompting is inconsistent and regularly prompts too frequently (sometimes as little as < ten minutes). Requesting a prompt after an hour seems more appropriate.
about 2 years ago in Identity and Access Management 4 Not under consideration

Data Encryption

Need to create a data security service that can encrypt (or decrypt) data and pass it on to another service.
about 8 years ago in Analytics / Security 0 Not under consideration

Auto-renewal of SSL certificates on Bluemix apps having custom domains

We have deployed 2 of our applications out of 13 on Bluemix which are using custom domains. Also we have recently secured them by uploading SSL certificates by generating them from bluemix-letsencrypt open source project. (https://github.com/ibmjs...
over 7 years ago in Secrets Manager 0 Not under consideration

Offer organization SSL administration per API

Adding a wildcard SSL certificate per API would be a helpful feature for managing organizations with many domains. Maybe this could be integrated in the Cloud Foundry API.
about 8 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration

Bisam consulting

At Bisam Consulting, we offer a comprehensive range of IT services to meet the needs of our clients. Our services include: IT consulting: We provide expert IT consulting services to help businesses streamline their operations and improve their bot...
over 1 year ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Not under consideration

Low-Level Security Separation via hashcoding of all executables/scripts via cached/validated Hashcodes

Why do we still have malware, spyware, ransomware, or backdoors? Is it because our firewalls or Anti-virus solutions are only reactive and not proactive? Or is it because we don’t have walled/secured gardens or has security a too high price we wou...
over 1 year ago in Security 1 Not under consideration