Skip to Main Content
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).


Shape the future of IBM!

We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

Search existing ideas

Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

Post your ideas
  1. Post an idea.

  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


Specific links you will want to bookmark for future use

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.

ADD A NEW IDEA

My ideas: Core Platform Services

Showing 72

Notify deprecated services on the Service creation page

I understand some of the older Mobile services like Push are being replaced by new services (IBM Push Notification). The old services have a grey icon instead of the normal coloured one. It would be really useful to have this information on the Se...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Delivered

Please extend the Bluemix platform

If IBM will extend the Bluemix trial for 1 year, especially for students, it will be useful to use Bluemix platform for IoT and mobile integration development. Thank you very much for such wonderful API services.
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

"Get Help" section trouble

Once i got into "Get Help" section, i entered the key obstacles i faced in making my app. Later clicked my dashboard tab for looking at some essential, later returned to "get help" center and found my work lost! Please look in to solve this proble...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Be transparent in use of third-party services

The BlueMix web GUI (bluemix.net) depends on multiple services from multiple vendors for implementation. Many of these vendors are implemented in the browser through JavaScript and utilize cookies as well. Certain browsers, e.g. Chrome and Firefox...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Include a prerequisites checklist at the start of documents

There is an assumption in docs that the IBM/BlueMix environment is set-up & understood. As a newcommer to the IBM environment, but not unfamiliar with development generally, I notice that docs generally 'assume' the user environment & fami...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Please add Memory size on Tiles on Dashboard

If you are running low on memory, the user could use this information to figure out which of their 30 applications is running that could provide back much needed memory. Otherwise, you kind of have to drill into each app. Another option would be t...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Provide an org-centric view of catalog management

Category: Admin Console
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Pricing Info on the Home Page

There is no mention of pricing structure on the main console page. Since this is an IBM service, people often expect it to be contract-based and/or enterprise-level cost. The fact that we have a free tier and support a PayGo model is great and we ...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 5 Delivered

Geolocation based choice of Bluemix region not intuitive

Bluemix seems to automatically choose a Bluemix region (Dallas, London, Sydney) based on geolocating the user. That leads to services possibly not being displayed in the catalog and reactions like "where is all this great stuff you are talking abo...
about 8 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