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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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Sending EMAIL and SMS from IBM ROKS OpenShift Cluster pods

We would like to use IBM Cloud Event Notification service in our application to send SMS, Email, push notifications. Since our application is running on IBM Cloud OpenShift platform it is not supporting this integration.
almost 2 years ago in Event Streams 0 Delivered

Re-introduce a free limited time account for trial use

We have a problem. Since the demise of the Lite account, users who want to try out IBM Cloud need to provide credit card details. However, first, many people are put off adding their credit card details and second, many are being rejected, for rea...
almost 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Server status in the portal is automatically reflected even when shutdown is executed (not from portal actions menu, but) from OS function.

I would like the status to be displayed correctly (the power-on menu appears) in the "Action.." menu of the portal even when the OS is shut down. Alternatively, I would like to see a display that shows that there is no problem in executing the pow...
about 2 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

2FA Form Accept Enter Key

Please alter your two factor authentication form on https://cloud.ibm.com/login to accept the ENTER key as a submit for verification. Many other sites (including the form for this site) allow this action to streamline the login process.
over 2 years ago in Security 1 Delivered

Add support for ed25519 ssh keys

At the moment IBM Cloud only supports RSA keys. Please add support for ed25519 which is much shorter and more secure.
over 2 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Improvement of the judge logic of Control ID 1.18(3000018) in IBM Cloud Security & Compliance Center

We'd like you to request improvement of the judge logic of Control ID 1.18(3000018). Our request is : Without editing the "Expected Values" by the end user , the SCC tool can detect the goal automatically . In other words "SCC should detect the re...
almost 3 years ago in Security 1 Delivered

What is your credit card number - is solving the WRONG PROBLEM

With the myriad of shortcomings and issues with ibm cloud billing, requiring a credit number for a new ibm cloud account is forcing serious questions about IBM's tactics and intentions within customer organizations. A customer purchased a $100K su...
almost 3 years ago in Billing 1 Delivered

Block storage volume snapshots for VPC Openshift PVCs

For Openshift VPC we mostly use Block Storage due to better performance.But is pretty needed to have a backup mechanism to safeguard our data in case of unexpected dissaster.
almost 3 years ago in Block Storage 2 Delivered

Charge display when changing VSI configuration on the portal

Hello, We want to improve the interface of the VSI configration changing screen. It is difficult to understand the charge display contents when changing the VSI configuration. We want to see the following in one screen: - The monthly fee ...
almost 3 years ago in  0 Delivered

Allow consumer lag metric in IBM managed Sysdig from IBM Enterprise Event Streams

When using Enterprise Event Streams we are able to visualize metrics through managed sysdig. In looking through Sysdig documentation there is no way to check Kafka consumer lag through metrics. This is an important metric as it can verify consumer...
about 3 years ago in  0 Delivered