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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.

  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.

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Core Platform Services

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Take advantage of digital pen input

Enable handwriting directly into Bluemix apps. When mobility is important virtual keyboards are hated, and natural language (voice) may not be convenient. Hardware with quality pen support is available from Apple, Microsoft and a number of Android...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

provide usage (in hours/minutes)

This is nothing to do with pricing, but with usage. In the Dashboard (in this case for Speech-to-Text), display the amount used for the month.
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

Need to have a search on the Bind to Existing Services screen

When you have over 100 services, that screen takes forever to load. Once you get over say 30 services, you could be able to do a type ahead search for the what you are looking for. Like if you just want the SQL database, you shouldn't have to scro...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration

Service to Restrict access to application and charge the end users as per usage. Online Billing

Once application is created the URL is open to public and can be accessed by anyone, This may lead to unnecessary charging to the developer's credit card who created the application and someone may misuse to increase the usage without paying for i...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

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...
almost 2 years ago in UX and Console 2 Not under 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?
over 2 years ago in Support 1 Not under consideration

Camera system for IBM

Hello sir, My name is BHAVIN PARMAR and i m in B.Tech 1st year. I have idea about the camera system. i see that if someone is lost the CCTV camera is very useful to find them. but for that we seat in front of display for the many hours to find the...
over 3 years ago in Support 1 Not under consideration

Cloud Map

Hopefully this reaches who it needs to reach. And doesn’t get lost or stolen. Thank you!
almost 4 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Notification when creating a case by IBM Cloud yourself

Hello, When the IBM Cloud creates an event, a notification email that the event was created is sent to users who have access to the associated device and have event notifications set up. However, when the IBM Cloud first creates a case or ticket (...
about 4 years ago in Support 0 Not under consideration

No translated doc pages whould default to english instead of failing.

See CS1157482 for more details. This link works https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/cloud-foundry?topic=cloud-foundry-what-s-new-in-ibm-cloud-foundry-enterprise-environment&locale=en But this one does says that the page does not exist: https://cloud...
over 4 years ago in Documentation 1 Not under consideration