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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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Improve the new Bluemix console

The new console has bad design! it wastes so much of my screen and displays way less information than the current console. About 1/3 of my screen width is wasted by empty space. Why? Columns that display number of instances or amount of memory are...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

Add Vitess as Product

Vitess is a mysql compatible scalable Cloudnative Database. As Developers of Cloudnative Telco AAA Systems the performance of the system highly depends of the performance of the database. Local tests show good performance and we would like to have...
over 1 year ago in Databases 1 Not under consideration

Single tenant offering for Block Storage

Our customers need to use cloud storages exsculsively in the IBM cloud due to their security standard. Please enable us to use IBM Block Storage in a single tenant mode. We know IBM Cloud has higher security technologies for IBM Block Storage, but...
almost 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Not under consideration

Add Cloud Shell access with Trusted Profiles

Our client has decided to use Trusted Profiles to perform our logins in the portal of IBM Cloud as this way we don't need to have local users and this method is preferred over Dynamic rules. We have tried Trusted Profiles and many things work perf...
almost 3 years ago in CLI 0 Not under consideration

K8s/dynamic persisted volumes/annoation to set linux access rights

We have the issue, that we require a new persisted volume using the IBM dynamic feature. The access rights are per default:drwxr-xr-x 6 nobody 4294967294 4096 Apr 19 15:10 . So we have to change the rights beforhand, so the docker of keycloak for ...
over 6 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

Ehnancing the Bluemix Reporting feature

Its an enhancement of an existing feature at more deeper level rather than a new feature. Looking at the Bluemix Hierarchy At top level we have SI Account. An Account contains multiple Organizations An Organization further contains multip...
over 7 years ago in Billing 2 Not under consideration

control buildpack update frequency

Although the approximate 1 month buildpack updated frequency is appreciated by a large segment of our customers - there are a number of enterprise customers which have longer application and maintenance cycles than 1 month. What this means is that...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 3 Not under consideration

As a Bluemix Dedicated and Local customer, I need the ability to have a Single Sign On service to manage users effectively

Currently I have to load my LDAP into Dedicated or Local, and after that point Bluemix is disconnected from my LDAP. This makes managing Bluemix difficult because now I have to staff someone to try and keep Bluemix in sync with my company LDAP (e....
about 8 years ago in Security 0 Not under consideration

Create a "bluemix" Ansible module for automating app and service deployments

I recently wrote a blog that explored the possibility of using Ansible to handle provisioning and deployment orchestration for IBM Bluemix container apps. You can find the article and demo code here: http://greenchile.io/deploying-ibm-bluemix-cont...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Hide Sensitive environment variable data from admins

While uploading some sensitive credentials for an application (DB user/password, etc), one way to do is through the user provided services. These variables are visible to the administrator in the console in clear. There could be a way to categori...
over 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration