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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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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.

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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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Add "enable IP forwarding" feature on a VPC VSI's NIC

All other major cloud service providers have the feature to enable IP forwarding on a VM 's NIC. In Azure it's called "enable IP forwarding": https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-network-network-interface#enable-or-disabl...
over 3 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Delivered

Revise the insane amount of time a simple firmware upgrade takes

Hello, We are running a rather large vSAN environment, it was suggested by VMware we upgrade the disk FW. Since I know IBM (Softlayer) it always takes a tremendous amount of time for these simple tasks, so I asked how long a disk firmware upgrade ...
over 3 years ago in Bare Metal 2 Delivered

IBM Resource Access governance reports

I want to be able to answer a simple question when asked by an Auditor - Who has access to your COS Bucket? Shockingly there is no way to generate an access report from a resource such as COS to see what service ID's and User ID's have access. If ...
over 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

Push Notification - Split Device in the Monitor for iOS and Andriod

CS1874320 Hi Team, Devices registered doesn’t give the details of mobile devices split (iOS & Android). Currently for our apps we register only iOS/Android devices with IBM console the data is important for viewing ? We would like to see a spl...
over 3 years ago in  0 Delivered

Allow students to get credits without credit card details

Students are increasingly using cloud services for educational purpose. However, many a times credit card becomes a hurdle since students usually don't own a one. Therefore, if IBM cloud could consider allowing students to subscribe for $200 credi...
over 3 years ago in Billing 2 Delivered

When creating portable storage need the device path to be noted along with the new strorage device

When one creates new storage for a VM would like to be able to navigate to the storage VM's storage list and see the OS path to the new storage. This helps in quickly setting up the new storage via fdisk and is also good for future reference if ev...
over 3 years ago in Block Storage 0 Delivered

Archive and Expiration rules for Object Storage in Terraform

I'd like to be able to express cloud object storage buckets in terraform. Currently it's not possible to specify archive and expiration rules.
almost 4 years ago in Cloud Object Storage 0 Delivered

Push Notification Service Monitoring through IBM Cloud Sysdig

We want to monitor push notification service instance and the api endpoints, and currently there is no native IBM Solution which can monitor and send alerts to email DL. Request to support push notification service in IBM Cloud Sysdig Monitoring,
almost 4 years ago in  4 Delivered

New SKUs for LogDNA

LogDNA has been working with Alex Parker about 2 new SKUs for IKS baremetal. Hot: 32x384, 1.9TB SSD secondary, 3.8TB SSD local Cold: 32x384, 1.9TB SSD secondary, 6x3.8TB SSD local THis idea is to faciliate status updates between IBM and LogDNA
almost 4 years ago in Bare Metal 0 Delivered

Bare metal GPU pricing is misleading - can be more transparent

The Bare Metal GPU pricing on this webpage: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/gpu#597326 seems to be misleading. For example, the price for a NVIDIA Tesla 32 GB V100 + Dual Intel Xeon E5-4110 starts from USD 519/mo. However, when I configure the same mach...
almost 4 years ago in  0 Delivered