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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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VMs in VPC Gen V2 should support re-sizing option

VMs in VPC Gen V2 should support re-sizing option. The basic benefit of cloud is elasticity and feature like dynamic re-sizing according to needs. like we can upgrade to a higer size or vice-versa as per usage. Almost all providers give it out of ...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

Add support to integer fields in Logmet

Currently, if I extract integer fields of my logs and send it to Logmet through mtlogstash, I can't use this fields in Kibana.
almost 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 1 Delivered

Information one month before reservations/contracts end

when our reservation of a worker pool ran out of contract IBM just deactivated the nodes in production. It would be much more efficient to get a warning by email one month before, so that neither your support team nor we have to search for the pro...
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 0 Delivered

Archive and Expiration rules for Object Storage in Terraform

I'd like to be able to express cloud object storage buckets in terraform. Currently it's not possible to specify archive and expiration rules.
almost 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Cloud Object Storage 0 Delivered

Add CIS Benchamrk Images to IBM Cloud

IBM Cloud need to offer CIS Benchmark images. Other cloud providers have this as part of their portfolio: https://www.cisecurity.org/hardened-images/
over 6 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Compliance 2 Delivered

Support IPv6 Support for Bluemix Cloud Foundry Apps

In June 2016 Apple announced that Apps for iOS are only supported when they are communicating over IPv6. Therefore, for backend points that are working for mobile Apps IPv6 Support is essential. Cloud Foundry Apps should be deployed into a IPv6 en...
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Make OpenWhisk available at EU

Hi, It will be great if you make OpenWhisk available for EU users, for increased speed. Thanks in advance!
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 3 Delivered

Enable logging for VPC Load Balancers (Region: Frankfurt)

Hi Team, Currently we have multiple private VPC Load Balanacers deployed in our account. However, we have been informed that the LB logs are sent to us-south (Dallas) region. Since, we are GDPR complaint, it would not be ideal for our logs to trav...
almost 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Load Balancer 1 Delivered

Platform needs two factor authentication for public, dedicated, and local

It's ridiculous that the platform doesn't already have two factor authentication
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services / Security 2 Delivered

Provide a way to access historic logs for runtimes

When a runtime/instance is restarted, all the logs get deleted, a way to access the logs after a restart would be very beneficial.
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 2 Delivered