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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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Add multiple tags at once using ibmcloud

So far is possible to add a tag to a single device by using the command: "ibmcloud resource tag-attach --tag-names TAG --resource-name NAME". However, is NOT possible to do it for multiple devices. It should be great if it could work for multiple ...
over 3 years ago in CLI 0 Future consideration

Add data usage monthly/daily reports or volumes in IBM Cloud Secure Gateways

i could see there is a limitation of the IBM Secure gateway product. By default secure gateways should give below details, so that all the support teams can proactively take the corrective action to avoid any service outage to the business. 1. how...
over 3 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Export of classic infrastructure block and file storage to .csv format for easy reporting

Export of classic infrastructure block and file storage to .csv format for easy reporting just like you can for devices. It makes it easy for reporting purposes to management. Now the process requires using the slcli and piecing together the disjo...
over 4 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

Alerts for space consumed in file systems

It would be very useful to be able to receive alerts when the use of a file storage exceeds a quota set by the user. Currently you can receive alarms for Snapshots capacity, it would be equally useful to receive these types of alerts for the gener...
almost 5 years ago in File Storage 0 Not under consideration

Stop recommending a Java applet for KVM access

Java applets have been banned by most browsers for several years. Getting one running is enormously difficult. Yet the KVM for your VSIs (which runs bog-standard unencrypted VNC) still pushes the use of a Java applet and someone has to dig through...
about 5 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

Classic Infra Bandwidth graph need change timezone

If view the past SoftLayer Portal Bandwidth,The graph was displayed in the Timezone associated with SoftLayerID,It is now displayed as TIME (America / Chicago Time) only.I want to be able to display graphs in the time zone according to the local t...
about 5 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud Console event display

Even if I select "IBM cloud Platform", my expected events are not displayed in the list. "Filter by component" is displayed in English only.However, for accounts using Japanese, "IBM Cloud Platform" is displayed as "IBM Cloud プラットフォーム" in the even...
about 5 years ago in Administration 0 Future consideration

Ticket updates in email body.

Before the new portal was introduced, whenever there is a ticket update, we used to get the details in the email. Now all that we get is that “there is an update”. This means each time we get an email, we will have to log in to the portal and chec...
over 5 years ago in Support 1 Not under consideration

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-
almost 6 years ago in Content Delivery Network (CDN) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud IaaS should support KOPS

60% clients will choose self-build Kubernetes on IaaS or on-premise infrastructure. https://github.com/kubernetes/kops AWS/GCP/Digitalocean officially support now.
about 6 years ago in Containers 0 Not under consideration