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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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Low-Level Security Separation via hashcoding of all executables/scripts via cached/validated Hashcodes

Why do we still have malware, spyware, ransomware, or backdoors? Is it because our firewalls or Anti-virus solutions are only reactive and not proactive? Or is it because we don’t have walled/secured gardens or has security a too high price we wou...
over 1 year ago in Security 1 Not under consideration

Details behind error condition with LPARs in PowerVS

Example: Attempted to deploy 2 LPARs in PowerVS, one would consistently fail - going into error state, with no other details. Tried a number of times to redeploy the one LPAR with the same result. Atempted the next day and it worked. . I checked w...
over 3 years ago in Power 51 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

Push Notification Reports in PDF or Excel

CS2357600 Hi Team, Please help to add a feature to generate Push Notification status report in PDF or excel for below items: 1.How many push notifications sent to particular instance. 2.How many got SUCCESS. 3.How many got FAILED. 4.Reason for the...
over 3 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

Provide support for HTTP/2 on CloudFoundry

Hi Please provide support for HTTP/2 on Cloudfoundry. If possible please push CF community to build this.
over 3 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

Extend the date options on Ops Console and provide the limit date of disrutive maintenance.

a) Administrator set only three choices in about one month. I want to extend from one month to few months(over 3 months). b) A disruptive maintenance was notified before few days of limit date. Customer can not adjust the schedule because of sudde...
about 7 years ago in Administration 3 Not under 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

changing owner of an account

being at the distributor level and on Pay go side. we do not have the ability to change the owner of an account on the fly. we would need the ability to update the owner when the owner moves on or the distributor needs to take control of the accou...
over 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 4 Not under consideration