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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).


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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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My ideas: Core Platform Services

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Ability to remove myself from an Org

Once I have been added to another person's account (organisation) I can't remove myself. I've reached a point where I have lots of orgs cluttering up my UI and CLI experience but can't remove myself from them. Add the ability for a user to remove ...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services / Identity and Access Management 6 Delivered

Roadmap communications channel for Customers and Partners

As a platform owner (public, dedicated or local) I would like to know what services the applications on my platform is using, its status and when they may expire so I can give the applications time to move off of those service. Currently the only ...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Delivered

accept PO box billing addresses in standard format

When inputing the billing address for my IBM Cloud payment method, if my billing address is a PO box, then the IBM Cloud website should accept that address. Currently, the IBM Cloud website explicitly states that it does not accept PO boxes. This ...
over 1 year ago in Billing 0 Delivered

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.
over 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Granular usage details including vApp name

We deploy many vApps with unique names from templates causing all the VMs to have the same names regardless of which vApp they are in. For billing, we are unable to compare our usage data from in-house to IBM usage data because the data provided b...
over 1 year ago in Billing 0 Delivered

Activity Log for all cloud activities

to improve our monitoring, eg security monitoring, we need to be able to track activities on IBM Cloud / Bluemix. who creates/deletes/update a service or app. this is really necessary (by law) to bring use cases with higher security needs to IBM C...
about 7 years ago in Administration 3 Delivered

Re-introduce a free limited time account for trial use

We have a problem. Since the demise of the Lite account, users who want to try out IBM Cloud need to provide credit card details. However, first, many people are put off adding their credit card details and second, many are being rejected, for rea...
almost 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Ticket support - expand "Text area" with new row

Expand the “Text Area” "Add Comment here" dedicated to comments when responding to tickets to support.Only 4 lines are currently displayed
7 months ago in Support 0 Delivered

As a Bluemix Dedicated customer, I want to be able to demonstrate HIPAA readiness of runtimes and services

I have an app that needs to be HIPAA certified, therefore I need the platform and services that my application uses to be HIPAA ready
about 8 years ago in Compliance / Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Do not ask for credit card number -

There is little value in having the credit card number of an account that has too little activity to charge. It almost deterred me and when I recommended Bluemix to a friend, this is one of the first things he mentioned. I had to reassure him that...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered