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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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DMZ type of deployment configuration

In a typical application I have several components running on Bluemix and now all of them exposes their interfaces to the public network. Of course they have been protected by https and various credentials. Anyway this exposes more interfaces to p...
over 8 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

we are looking for the creation of snapshots of vpc server automatically using backup policy at exact time of cron entry.

Hello, We created the backup plan and backup policy in test environment and found that it is taking 1 hr interval time around the enter cron entry to take automatic snapshot. Can you please add the feature to take the automatic snapshot on exact c...
about 2 years ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Not under consideration

Java development in Bluemix

Hi, When developing a Java application which uses services, there should be an easy way to run it locally and still have connection to all the services. The VCAP_SERVICES environment variable should be seamlessly configured to the local Liberty. ...
over 8 years ago in Templates & Best Practises 2 Not under consideration

Customize Bluemix landing page content

Provide a way to customize the content of Bluemix landing page for Dedicated and Local. It would be useful for clients to be able to remove content that is not applicable in their environment (i.e. containers) as well as to add client specific lin...
over 8 years ago in Administration / Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration

About changing the EMAIL address of the SoftlayerID user

There are still many users using SoftlayerID on the IBM Cloud portal. However, recently, IBM Cloud made it impossible to change their email address on their SoftlayerID user profile. Please revert this specification, and restore the ability for So...
about 3 years ago in Identity and Access Management 0 Not under consideration

Security Insights Key scanning

AWS uses their “AWS Trusted Advisor” to scan for AWS credentials and security keys within software repositories. We need to have the same capability for Security Insights (SCC) to scan repositories for IBM Cloud API keys
about 3 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration

GO API support for IBM Kubernetes Service

Hi Team We are working on open source project called https://steampipe.io/ part of it, we are addressing multiple cloud platform compliance & governance benchmarks by SQL queries. We are looking forward to address IBM compliances part of it (h...
about 3 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

BM user Password Expiry Policy

Currently Bluemix does not have any password expiry policy. Customer from Finance domain has requested to have a password expiry policy (configurable if possible) for BM users.
almost 8 years ago in Administration 2 Not under consideration

UI options in portal - for Rename, Move files between buckets of same COS instance

I see that there is an API for COS to move objects between one bucket to another bucket of same instance. I guess it allows users to define the new file name to be used to copy to another bucket. However, when i review the similar options, we do n...
about 3 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud 2FA Prompt Less Frequently

The current implementation of 2FA prompting is inconsistent and regularly prompts too frequently (sometimes as little as < ten minutes). Requesting a prompt after an hour seems more appropriate.
over 2 years ago in Identity and Access Management 4 Not under consideration