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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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10GB Direct Link Cloud Exchange in Ashburn and Chicago POPs

Customer needs 10GB Direct Link Cloud Exchange in Ashburn and Chicago POPs in order to link their hybrid cloud model with other Cloud Exchange providers such as AWS and Azure. Currently we only offer 1GB Direct Link Cloud Exchange and customer nee...
almost 6 years ago in Direct Link 2 Not under consideration

VRF inherent in ALL accounts

Since VRF is required for Direct Link. Would it make sense when an account is provisioned, it is automatically under the VRF umbrella.
almost 7 years ago in Network 1 Not under consideration

Universal Optical cable for device connectivity

As more content is moving to cloud, the world needs - now is an optical (fiber) based durable cable that connects and powers devices.At first corp servers will use it and now a scaled down version for household devices - either it could follow or ...
about 7 years ago in Network 0 Not under consideration

Onboarding app for new Dedicated customers

CURRENT: Customer is required to fill out a spreadsheet with VPN configuration parameters. This is time consuming and prone to errors as there are no checks on the data entered until it is received by a network engineer. PROPOSAL: Onboarding app...
about 8 years ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Not under consideration

global application accelerate platform

No description provided
almost 6 years ago in Network 2 Not under consideration

Show private IP address of Bluemix load balancer

How do I know the private IP address of Bluemix load balancer on the SoftLayer customer portal? Should be shown IP addresses on the load balancer property, or on the Network subnet, not just primary IP but Bluemix load balancer.
almost 7 years ago in Load Balancer 0 Not under consideration

Custom Domain

Explain how to setup custom domains on IBM cloud lite (for the UK).
almost 7 years ago in DNS Services 1 Not under consideration

Application Segregation

With traditional firewalls across most large enterprises that do not allow URL filtering is there anything in the pipeline to allow for individual applications to have their own IP address
about 7 years ago in Subnets / IPs 1 Not under consideration

Please extend the timeout of the Softlayer loadbalancer

We are using API Connect (APIC) on Bluemix. We have an invoke action on APIC assembly editor and see "500 Internal Server Error" when we invoke a URL which returns about 100MB data . We opened a Bluemix ticket (5377-13438679) to investigate, then ...
over 7 years ago in Network 5 Not under consideration

Create a way to lockdown HTTP for access instead of hard-coding

Currently, developers have to hard-code HTTP access in their applications. SEE POSTED COMMENT BELOW.
over 7 years ago in Network 3 Not under consideration