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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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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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about 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 1 Delivered

Global Server Load Balancing for Cross-Region Automatic Disaster Recovery

If we use IBM Cloud for enterprise , we need reliablilty system. We have any solution for relability . But , IBM Cloud is managed service . So, IBM need to serve relability option for Platform layer . specifly one of them , it is Global Load Baran...
about 7 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Delivered

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...
about 7 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / 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 ...
about 7 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / 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.
almost 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 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...
about 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / 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!
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 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
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / 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.
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 2 Delivered

Power infrastructure instances and volumes tagging possibility

It would be useful to have a possibility of tagging IBM Cloud Power service instances and Storage volumes for more detailed resource accounting. By the moment it's only possible to put tags on the whole workspace, but it's impossible to determine ...
4 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 0 Delivered