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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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Create more then one VLAN in Dedicated for our Kubernetes clusters

Today in IBM Cloud Dedicated when Kubernetes service is enabled we get one set of VLANS. This works however in cases where we want to very carefully segregate traffic between normal business requests and requests to our security service we would l...
over 6 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

ICD/Cloudant : schedule the backup

Need to be able to schedule the backup of a database, eg date & time when the backup should be started. The time of the automatic backups is unknown (and different for each instance). For Cloudant the schedule should allow to run the backup sc...
over 4 years ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

Hide "CANCELED" accounts from IBM Cloud UI's 'select account' drop down

Similar to the IDEA-I-3516 (for CLI), please "hide" (filter out) any IBM Cloud accounts (IMS Account ID + Account Name) from the UI's "select account" drop down list (the one between the "Manage" drop down and the "IBM Cloud Shell" icon in the upp...
about 2 years ago in UX and Console 2 Not under consideration

cancellation protection for Compute

Today, I cancelled the server by mistake. If IBM Cloud IaaS has the ability to protect against unintentional deletion, you will reduce some troubles. I think it will be useful for administrators who manage many servers. like AWS EC2 Termination pr...
over 6 years ago in Compute 1 Not under consideration

Support alerting for all services deployed on dedicated/local Bluemix platforms

As an administrator of a client platform, I experienced several situations where applications crashed because of exhausted resources on various services of the platform. It happened with network bandwidth saturation (vyatta) and with Compose RAM (...
almost 7 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Request of use from Bluemix Dedicated environment the service of OpenWhisk.

Hello,We know there is the service of OpenWhisk in the Bluemix Public environment in present.However, It is not permitted that the service of OpenWhisk use from Bluemix Dedicated environment.So, We require the specification change that we can use ...
about 7 years ago in  2 Not under consideration

PayPal as default payment method

You should offer PayPal as a default payment method and allow automated monthly payments from a pre-authorised PayPal account.
over 4 years ago in  4 Not under consideration

IaaS Classic Infra Events there is no link in the portal

We will receive IaaS maintenance events via emailSince the mail system may become undeliverable, the event page was also browsed regularly on the classic portal screen so far. I can still get there because the event details link is in the email, b...
almost 5 years ago in Support 2 Not under consideration

Get security device roadmap on the Cloud Portal

We are currently using IBM Network and security features to provide some services but are not able to see anywhere in the portal the roadmap of these services. For example, we do not have the version of Fortinet. Could you please release a roadmap...
almost 5 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

NetScaler VPX license expiration notification in Case

In the Customer Portal, the NetScaler VPX license expiration date ticket was displayed in the ticket list.Currently, the Case on the IBM Cloud console does not display a Case that tells us when the NetScaler VPX license expires.Also, NetScaler use...
almost 5 years ago in Support 0 Not under consideration