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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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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

Directlink cloud port speed match with Equinix order

The new Directlink cloud order process requires the customer to place an order on Equinix with matching port speed to that on IBM cloud. This however creates a problem where the customer need to place a new Equinix order and redo their end of the ...
almost 7 years ago in Direct Link 1 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

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

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

Transit VLAN Spanning

Currently we have two options to link two PODs, using VLAN Spanning (which allows secondary IP addresses to be created on servers to bypass VLAN separation on Vyatta), or using a VPN over public interface (which makes DDOS attacks possible). I w...
over 7 years ago in VLAN 1 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

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