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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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We Should Be Notified for All Maintenance Across All Services

We Should Be Notified for All Maintenance Across All Services. Currently some services such as Cloudant, Compose DBs do some changes without notification to us.
about 7 years ago in  2 Delivered

Encrypt Logmet data at rest

Not able to use Logmet service today in production because data is not encrypted at REST
about 7 years ago in  1 Delivered

Manage Organization page is very unintuitive to use

Many users really struggle trying to do the simple task of inviting new/existing users to their organization. The feedback I got from the field is that the flow is unintuitive and messy. - 'Team Directory', 'Invite Team Members' and 'Manage Organ...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services / Identity and Access Management 2 Delivered

2 Steps Authentication for Bluemix Login

Would be nice and also make things more secure to be able to use something like google authenticator application with Bluemix login. It would also be great to be able to have different password policies for Bluemix Login. What is currently in plac...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services / Identity and Access Management / Security 0 Delivered

Store my Region

Please store the region Im using on startup. Everytime I log-in I need to switch to UK...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Desire user ability to "disable" or "collapse" certain UI components to minimize platform API calls

There are alot of UI elements that are independently loading within the dashboard (I've counted at a least 10+ spinners at once) Frankly, many of items ultimately loading are simply noise to my immediate needs (e.g. Containers with 0/2 public IPs,...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Support for mutual SSL/TLS for API Manager on Bluemix

Add support to establish two way SSL/TLS connections to API-M and from API-M. This request is for API-M on Bluemix dedicated and Bluemix local. In our environment, mutual SSL is required to integrate API-M with existing enterprise services and bec...
over 7 years ago in  0 Delivered

Please add better documentation on how to create and use search indexes. It's very difficult to figure out using the existing documentation.

The documentation to setup and use a search index in Cloudant is very hard to understand. It would be ideal to provide more use case code examples in the documentation.
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Create Image of Virtual Instance in VPC Infrastructure

Image can be created of a running Virtual Instance in classic Infrastructure but not available for GEN2 VPC Infrastructure as per Support case CS1976835. This is basic functionality available from all cloud providers and is heavily used to create ...
over 3 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

You will not be notified that you cannot ping.

I have set email notification at https://cloud.ibm.com/ when ping is not possible, but I am not notified. The cause is poor database performance. Call for early improvement.
over 3 years ago in  5 Delivered