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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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Metrics monitoring of IBM Log Analysis through IBM Cloud Sysdig

Request to support metrics monitoring of IBM Log Analysis in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring. currently, there is no native IBM Solution for this.
over 2 years ago in  1 Future consideration

Metrics monitoring of Block storage volumes - vpc through IBM Cloud Sysdig

Request to support metrics monitoring of Block storage volumes for VPC in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring.currently, there is no native IBM Solution for this.
over 2 years ago in  5 Functionality already exists

gRPC support between Code Engine applications

Considering gRPC is well-defined and used thouroughly in cloud deployments from small startups to global scaled services, it makes little sense that IBM Cloud Engine does not support this type of microservice communications. My company is using a ...
about 3 years ago in  0 Future consideration

Ability to Downgrade from Standard to Lite Plan

It would be great to be able to downgrade from the paid standard plans to the lite plan in the event that your project scope changes instead of having to completely delete your account.
about 3 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Ability to disable or extend session timeout for power virtual server lpar sessions

We are using the IBM Cloud services as our DR strategy. We have a couple of large databases that would have to be restored during a DR scenario or our annual tests. These database restores require interaction and run for nearly 4 hours. Disabling ...
about 3 years ago in Power 2 Not under consideration

I would like to see cloud foundry to support TLS1.3.

The open source CF has clear documentation supporting TLS1.3. But IBM Cloud foundry (public) is not offering TLS 1.3 for apps deployed in CF. TLS 1.3 improves transport security. https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/adminguide/securing-traffic.html#tls_1.3
almost 4 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

bx cli improvement

"bx cf services" 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 lif...
over 6 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

Detailed Billing API

Customer requested a API to capture up to the date billing metrics for a given org. They want to add their own interface for an internal application for their internal billing system. If they had the API's available to identify the current cost if...
over 7 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Provide options to build iOS .ipa and Android .apk files completely in the Bluemix cloud

Please see the following link for a primer on the issue we are facing http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41624892/how-to-build-a-react-native-ipa-and-apk-application-in-bluemix Ideally we would like a turnkey method to build .ipa and .apk file...
over 7 years ago in Mobile 0 Not under consideration

DataPower Segmentation

Currently the Access Point to a Bluemix Local instance is based on a Datapower pair (HA configuration). This DP pair is facing all the input traffic to Applications deployed on Bluemix, although this traffic belongs to different Organizations that...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration