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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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We invite you to shape the future of IBM, including product roadmaps, by submitting ideas that matter to you the most. Here's how it works:

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Start by searching and reviewing ideas and requests to enhance a product or service. Take a look at ideas others have posted, and add a comment, vote, or subscribe to updates on them if they matter to you. If you can't find what you are looking for,

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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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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 ...
almost 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 ...
about 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...
almost 8 years ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 0 Not under consideration