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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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Admins should be able to hide runtimes & boilerplates

Admins should be able to hide runtimes & boilerplates.
about 8 years ago in Administration 4 Not under consideration

Database storage scale down

Cost control makes it sometime necessary to scale down IBM Cloud Database instance following database maintenance, application optimization or defect resolution. This feature is not available on most IBM Cloud Databases (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL...
about 1 year ago in Databases 0 Not under consideration

Current boot option is not viewable from PowerVS like it is on the HMC.

It is possible to change the boot option from PowerVS, but there is no way to view what the current setting is. To ensure it is set correctly, one must change to the desired setting then trust that it was set correctly before rebooting the virtual...
about 1 year ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

VMware Solution Day 2 Actions Capabilities

Hi, as a customer of IBM Cloud, we offer VMware Solutions reselling to our customers. Customers who have cost considerations use shared infra services meaning multiple tenants hosted on a single compute cluster. To provide services to multiple cus...
over 1 year ago in VMware Solutions 0 Not under consideration

Reduce need to re authenticate when 2 factor is enabled

We are using 2 factor authentication to sign in to IBMs cloud. This is enabled both for the web ui and for the cli. Our team uses an authenticator app for the second factor. This authentication setup requires re-authentication too often. I am unsu...
over 2 years ago in Account Management 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud File Storage support for cluster namespace

IBM Cloud File Storage (Classic and VPC) support for cluster namespace to allow for the reduction of vm/host mountpoints. In particular, there is a customer moving thousands of servers to IBM Cloud. This customer has hundreds of servers with clust...
over 2 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

IBM Delivery Pipeline Logs

IBM Delivery Pipeline logs should be present and stored somewhere to keep a track of activities and errors for future reference
over 3 years ago in  3 Not under consideration

Command to Copy an Existing Image on Bluemix

A replacement command should be available for "bx ic cpi" to copy an existing image on Bluemix. As "ic" has been replaced by "cr" now, we don't have any similar command available in either the "bx cs" or "bx cr" commands. Copying an image is usefu...
almost 7 years ago in Containers 1 Not under consideration

Should be able to View All Support Tickets Opened by Our Team

Currently there is no way to view support tickets opened by everyone on my team.
over 7 years ago in Support 4 Not under consideration

Cloud Foundry system component log drain for Dedicated Bluemix

As a Bluemix Dedicated customer, we would like to have access to Cloud Foundry system component logs. Today we have access to Cloud Foundry application logs (via the firehose-to-syslog nozzle that is enabled), but we would really benefit from ...
over 7 years ago in  0 Not under consideration