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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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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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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 (...
about 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

Support for NTLM authentication in cf/bx cli

To access Bluemix Dedicated through the cli, users need to go through a proxy. This proxy only accepts NTLM authentication which cf cli does not support. Unless the proxy is set to accept basic authentication, users are unable to use Bluemix. Belo...
over 7 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

Auto-renewal of SSL certificates on Bluemix apps having custom domains

We have deployed 2 of our applications out of 13 on Bluemix which are using custom domains. Also we have recently secured them by uploading SSL certificates by generating them from bluemix-letsencrypt open source project. (https://github.com/ibmjs...
over 7 years ago in Secrets Manager 15 Not under consideration

Ancient Sumerian clay tablets not very different from current digital blockchains: A new medium for storing blockchain data.

I had an idea for some time and did not know to whom or where to share it, I posted on bitcoin related sites and some blockchain developers but did not captured their imaginations with the same magnitude it happened with me, here it goes: Ancient ...
over 7 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

User Provided Service readable only by binding application

It would be very usefull if we were able to create user provided services containing sensitive information which would be only readable by application. It would be like a new security role where even manager and developer could not access to the c...
almost 8 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Service to support connections with IBM i systems and Bluemix databases

Connections to the IBM i and DB2/400 database would allow for easier integration and data movement between IBM i systems and Bluemix databases.
almost 8 years ago in  2 Not under consideration

One click deploy for Bluemix apps

The deploy options are CONFUSING. Can we not set up a bunch of variables and just upload our files then hit 'deploy' somewhere? Command line interfaces are so windows XP.
about 8 years ago in  3 Not under consideration

Back up and restore Cloudant databases + recommendations

Although Cloudant provides a way to set up a replication mechanism, there is no guidance on setting up backup (ssnapshot) and restor
over 8 years ago in  4 Not under consideration

As a Bluemix Administrator, I want to be able to run a report for all team members' expenses submitted within the last week.

I am required to submit a weekly expense summary to the Execs.
over 8 years ago in Billing 3 Not under consideration