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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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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.

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Store my Region

Please store the region Im using on startup. Everytime I log-in I need to switch to UK...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Desire user ability to "disable" or "collapse" certain UI components to minimize platform API calls

There are alot of UI elements that are independently loading within the dashboard (I've counted at a least 10+ spinners at once) Frankly, many of items ultimately loading are simply noise to my immediate needs (e.g. Containers with 0/2 public IPs,...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Delivered

Support for mutual SSL/TLS for API Manager on Bluemix

Add support to establish two way SSL/TLS connections to API-M and from API-M. This request is for API-M on Bluemix dedicated and Bluemix local. In our environment, mutual SSL is required to integrate API-M with existing enterprise services and bec...
about 8 years ago in  0 Delivered

Please add better documentation on how to create and use search indexes. It's very difficult to figure out using the existing documentation.

The documentation to setup and use a search index in Cloudant is very hard to understand. It would be ideal to provide more use case code examples in the documentation.
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Create Image of Virtual Instance in VPC Infrastructure

Image can be created of a running Virtual Instance in classic Infrastructure but not available for GEN2 VPC Infrastructure as per Support case CS1976835. This is basic functionality available from all cloud providers and is heavily used to create ...
about 4 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

You will not be notified that you cannot ping.

I have set email notification at https://cloud.ibm.com/ when ping is not possible, but I am not notified. The cause is poor database performance. Call for early improvement.
about 4 years ago in  5 Delivered

Log history needed in LogDNA for more than 30 days

CS1919810 Hi Team, Can you add a new fature in LogDNA in order to search logs more than 30 days since now it is limited for 30 days log history only. Can you also provide an API, if we need log history for more than 30 days in LogDNA, we need log ...
about 4 years ago in  1 Delivered

Revise the insane amount of time a simple firmware upgrade takes

Hello, We are running a rather large vSAN environment, it was suggested by VMware we upgrade the disk FW. Since I know IBM (Softlayer) it always takes a tremendous amount of time for these simple tasks, so I asked how long a disk firmware upgrade ...
over 4 years ago in Bare Metal 2 Delivered

IBM Resource Access governance reports

I want to be able to answer a simple question when asked by an Auditor - Who has access to your COS Bucket? Shockingly there is no way to generate an access report from a resource such as COS to see what service ID's and User ID's have access. If ...
over 4 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Object storage versioning

Being able to version objects in object storage ala Amazon S3 would be very useful to help avoid accidental deletion or overwriting of files, either accidental or malicious (e.g. ransomware). Ideally there would be separate permissions for editing...
over 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Delivered