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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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Live migration of virtual servers

Host hardware failure on hosts are quite common and every time this happens, we shut down customers' virtual servers to do migration. This is very disruptive to customer's business. Another pain point is that in instances when we need to do mainte...
over 6 years ago in Virtual Servers 1 Delivered

bx cli improvement

"bx cf spaces" does not have an option to turn off headers in the output, nor output to json, as other bx cli commands do. Currently I have to script the output to remove superfluous information, if I could just ouput json then it would make life ...
over 6 years ago in CLI 1 Delivered

Add support to integer fields in Logmet

Currently, if I extract integer fields of my logs and send it to Logmet through mtlogstash, I can't use this fields in Kibana.
over 7 years ago in  1 Delivered

Support IPv6 Support for Bluemix Cloud Foundry Apps

In June 2016 Apple announced that Apps for iOS are only supported when they are communicating over IPv6. Therefore, for backend points that are working for mobile Apps IPv6 Support is essential. Cloud Foundry Apps should be deployed into a IPv6 en...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Make OpenWhisk available at EU

Hi, It will be great if you make OpenWhisk available for EU users, for increased speed. Thanks in advance!
almost 8 years ago in  3 Delivered

Platform needs two factor authentication for public, dedicated, and local

It's ridiculous that the platform doesn't already have two factor authentication
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services / Security 2 Delivered

Provide a way to access historic logs for runtimes

When a runtime/instance is restarted, all the logs get deleted, a way to access the logs after a restart would be very beneficial.
about 8 years ago in  2 Delivered

Cloud monitoring for PowerVS Infrastructure

Cloud monitoring for powerVS should be enabled by native monitoring services.
about 1 year ago in Power 2 Delivered

accept PO box billing addresses in standard format

When inputing the billing address for my IBM Cloud payment method, if my billing address is a PO box, then the IBM Cloud website should accept that address. Currently, the IBM Cloud website explicitly states that it does not accept PO boxes. This ...
over 1 year ago in Billing 0 Delivered

Granular usage details including vApp name

We deploy many vApps with unique names from templates causing all the VMs to have the same names regardless of which vApp they are in. For billing, we are unable to compare our usage data from in-house to IBM usage data because the data provided b...
over 1 year ago in Billing 0 Delivered