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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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Cloud Internet Service - Customize error page

Although Cloudflare can customize error pages, but CIS(Cloud Internet Service) can't customize the error page. (like 1006 error page) . https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200172706-How-do-I-customize-Cloudflare-error-pages-
about 6 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Content Delivery Network (CDN) 4 Delivered

Granular usage details including vApp name

We deploy many vApps with unique names from templates causing all the VMs to have the same names regardless of which vApp they are in. For billing, we are unable to compare our usage data from in-house to IBM usage data because the data provided b...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Delivered

In API is possible sort by “creation_date” but not by “last_update_date”

In Secrets Management API it is possible sort by “creation_date” but not by “last_update_date” … our app needs to check if any secrets gets changed to reload them in our app, otherwise we need to reload every time all of the. We have few hundreds ...
about 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Secrets Manager 1 Delivered

Add secondary step before VSI can be deleted

Add requirement to type VSI name before it can be deleted in the same manner used for Kubernetes clusters.
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

Sending EMAIL and SMS from IBM ROKS OpenShift Cluster pods

We would like to use IBM Cloud Event Notification service in our application to send SMS, Email, push notifications. Since our application is running on IBM Cloud OpenShift platform it is not supporting this integration.
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Event Streams 0 Delivered

Re-introduce a free limited time account for trial use

We have a problem. Since the demise of the Lite account, users who want to try out IBM Cloud need to provide credit card details. However, first, many people are put off adding their credit card details and second, many are being rejected, for rea...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

CIS kubernetes security and compliance profile for the Cloud hosted Kubernetes services.

We have Cloud Hosted Kubernetes Services that we are hosting in IBM Cloud. We were hoping to utilize the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance centre's out of the box profiles to perform CIS benchmarking. However we are having difficulties getting any...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security 0 Delivered

Improve Active-Deploy deployment labling

When specifying a custom label for a deployment in active-deploy, the label cannot be found in the active-deploy-list. Using the deployment id is required to retreive the label with active-deploy-show. I suggest to generate a label by default, tha...
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 1 Delivered

Server status in the portal is automatically reflected even when shutdown is executed (not from portal actions menu, but) from OS function.

I would like the status to be displayed correctly (the power-on menu appears) in the "Action.." menu of the portal even when the OS is shut down. Alternatively, I would like to see a display that shows that there is no problem in executing the pow...
over 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

As a Bluemix Dedicated customer, I want to be able to demonstrate HIPAA readiness of runtimes and services

I have an app that needs to be HIPAA certified, therefore I need the platform and services that my application uses to be HIPAA ready
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compliance / Core Platform Services 2 Delivered