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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Dashboard display of services that need attention (upgrades, discontinuation)

What if the dashboard for IBM Cloud has the ability to display items that need special attention such upgrade or depreciation notice. i.e. if any RabbbitMQ 3.7 exists, 3.7 will be discontinued 9-10, Or your IKS cluster is 2 weeks away from falling...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

VMs in VPC Gen V2 should support re-sizing option

VMs in VPC Gen V2 should support re-sizing option. The basic benefit of cloud is elasticity and feature like dynamic re-sizing according to needs. like we can upgrade to a higer size or vice-versa as per usage. Almost all providers give it out of ...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

Archive and Expiration rules for Object Storage in Terraform

I'd like to be able to express cloud object storage buckets in terraform. Currently it's not possible to specify archive and expiration rules.
almost 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage 0 Delivered

Enable logging for VPC Load Balancers (Region: Frankfurt)

Hi Team, Currently we have multiple private VPC Load Balanacers deployed in our account. However, we have been informed that the LB logs are sent to us-south (Dallas) region. Since, we are GDPR complaint, it would not be ideal for our logs to trav...
almost 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Load Balancer 1 Delivered

Feature to delete resource groups

Customer has experimentation projects where resources live for a short period of time (i.e. Proof Of Concept). Customer creates resource groups to separate those resources from the rest of cloud. After the end of PoC, customer would like to delete...
over 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

MySQL service production version

Compose MySQL service go production required MariaDB is better. All cloud providers are turning to MariaDB. Don't know IBM so slow and still ask customer use DB2. Around 80% developers start from MySQL. That is mandatory service that developers re...
about 7 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 2 Delivered

Built-in backup for Cloudant

Currently there is no built-in backup functionality in both Cloudant managed offering and Cloudant Local product. The available "solutions" require manual set-up - even for a fully managed database. At the same time, Cloudant is positioned as a ...
over 7 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 1 Delivered

Remove Arbitrary limit on number of Custom Domains for a Paid Account

The doc talks about a limit of 4 custom domains with certificates here: https://console.bluemix.net/docs/manageapps/secapps.html#ssl_certificate That same doc used to say something like "If you need more than 4, contact Bluemix to get more for a...
over 7 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 5 Delivered

Current monitoring functionality is insufficient for Managers and Owner.

Managers and Owners should be able to see the details of created Apps, Services of users to plan actions ahead. Current monitoring functionality is insufficient. We request that you enable one or both of the following: a) Allow for usage monitori...
almost 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration 0 Delivered

We Should Be Notified for All Maintenance Across All Services

We Should Be Notified for All Maintenance Across All Services. Currently some services such as Cloudant, Compose DBs do some changes without notification to us.
about 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 2 Delivered

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