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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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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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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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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...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Provide an org-centric view of catalog management

Category: Admin Console
over 7 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 ...
over 7 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...
over 7 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...
almost 4 years ago in Billing 2 Delivered

Update No in Case

When we were using the SoftLayer Customer Portal, the ticket displayed "Update No".However, in the Case of IBM Cloud Console, Update No is not displayed in Case.This is very inconvenient for efficient Case exchange with you.Therefore, please impro...
over 4 years ago in Support 1 Delivered

Resource group as parameter for cli commands

When querying or updating resources that are tied to a resource group, you first have to target this specific resource group. That retarget takes quite a while and is also cumbersome when chaining commands. Therefore it would be nice, if you could...
over 4 years ago in CLI 1 Delivered

Support call-back number

need a way to have support team call us back on provided number; esp helpful for non-US teams since the support telephone line is US-based.
almost 5 years ago in Support 1 Delivered

Automation and DevOps oriented bx tools

e.g. bx logging log-download created thousands of lines of the progress --- SNIP --- 64.00 KiB / 13.00 MiB 0.48% 3.11 MiB/s 00m04s 64.00 KiB / 13.00 MiB 0.48% 2.07 MiB/s 00m04s 64.00 KiB / 13.00 MiB 0.48% 1.52 MiB/s 00m04s 64.00 KiB / 13.00 MiB ...
about 5 years ago in CLI 3 Delivered

New region status

It seems IBM Cloud release new region : AP-North. Currently I can order Kubernetes Service in AP-North region and Multi-regions in TOK02 04 05. Then I can select AP-North region for Cloudant. I am sure the services can be ordered from console.blue...
over 5 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered