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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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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:

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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,

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  1. Post an idea.

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

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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.

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Core Platform Services

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Hide "CANCELED" accounts from IBM Cloud UI's 'select account' drop down

Similar to the IDEA-I-3516 (for CLI), please "hide" (filter out) any IBM Cloud accounts (IMS Account ID + Account Name) from the UI's "select account" drop down list (the one between the "Manage" drop down and the "IBM Cloud Shell" icon in the upp...
over 2 years ago in UX and Console 2 Not under consideration

Add filter to "ibmcloud account list" to ignore "CANCELED" accounts by default

My individual user ID / IBMid is member of a large number of IBM Cloud accounts for good reasons. Some of the IBM Cloud accounts got deleted (SUSPENDED>CANCEL_PENDING>CANCELED) but are still shown in Web UI and CLI (ibmcloud account list). T...
over 2 years ago in CLI 1 Future consideration

API for IBM maintenance or outage events

We are a current IBM cloud customer hosting a webapp using IBM services. We have a monitoring platform that integrates with e-mail, slack, etc. that can send us alerts when our services are experiencing interruptions. As part of IBMs ongoing proce...
over 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Future consideration

Single tenant offering for Block Storage

Our customers need to use cloud storages exsculsively in the IBM cloud due to their security standard. Please enable us to use IBM Block Storage in a single tenant mode. We know IBM Cloud has higher security technologies for IBM Block Storage, but...
over 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Not under consideration

Please remove the freeze of the work related to any McAfee products.

All work on McAfee products was suddenly frozen in the IBM Cloud. Due to the freeze, we are unable to do the work requested by our customers. There was no prior announcement of it. And it is undecided the ETA of the removal of the freeze. We ...
over 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Add Cloud Shell access with Trusted Profiles

Our client has decided to use Trusted Profiles to perform our logins in the portal of IBM Cloud as this way we don't need to have local users and this method is preferred over Dynamic rules. We have tried Trusted Profiles and many things work perf...
almost 3 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

Missing useful information in IBM cloud portal

Hello, i am working as infrastructure DPE for Kyndryl cloud offerings (AMMSAP, SEI). As part of my monthly checks in IBM cloud portal, i need to find in the device view an additional column with asset status (ACTIVE, RECLAIM, ...).
almost 3 years ago in Administration 3 Future consideration

Local or Toll Free Number to contact IBM Cloud Support from the UK

Currently the only way to contact IBM Cloud directly via telephone is on the +1-866-403-7638 number which is Toll free from the US, but chargeable in the UK (and anywhere outside of the US I assume). If you have extended support calls and you are ...
almost 3 years ago in Support 1 Future consideration

Account suspended

My account with the IBM Cloud has been suspended, but I do not know how to get it reactivated. Is there a place where users can report such problems and get them resolved?
almost 3 years ago in Support 1 Not under consideration

Rename the routing table with IBM Cloud commands

I want to rename the default routing table that exists in my VPC using IBM Cloud commands. However, I can't find the method by searching the following documents. Would you please let me know if there is such a command or documentation that describ...
almost 3 years ago in CLI 2 Functionality already exists