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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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  2. Get feedback from the IBM team and other customers to refine your idea.

  3. Follow the idea through the IBM Ideas process.


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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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cancellation protection for Compute

Today, I cancelled the server by mistake. If IBM Cloud IaaS has the ability to protect against unintentional deletion, you will reduce some troubles. I think it will be useful for administrators who manage many servers. like AWS EC2 Termination pr...
almost 7 years ago in Compute 1 Not under consideration

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

HiFive

No description provided
almost 7 years ago in Mobile 1 Not under consideration

Command to Copy an Existing Image on Bluemix

A replacement command should be available for "bx ic cpi" to copy an existing image on Bluemix. As "ic" has been replaced by "cr" now, we don't have any similar command available in either the "bx cs" or "bx cr" commands. Copying an image is usefu...
almost 7 years ago in Containers 1 Not under consideration

PaaS Dedicated/Local URL shows information about Platform without login

When our users go to our internal URL to access at Local/Dedicated PaaS, if the users don't login at application they can click on 'Status' option and then it's displayed information about Incidents/Maintenance at PLATFORM LEVEL, this can provide ...
almost 7 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

In urgent need of Re-designing of Cloud primary website

1) Many don't remember the url https://www.ibm.com/cloud/ ,, but they can remember https://cloud.ibm.com.. This would clearly tells to customer IBM is the cloud first strategy company and cloud for IBM is one of the primary business area and IBM c...
almost 7 years ago in  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

Insurers as brokers in the Bitcoin World

Introduction The idea of this paper is to explore the possibility of Insurers acting as mere brokers and using Bitcoin as the payment mechanism. In this model, the customers will log on to their apps and purchase insurance online using Bitcoins (...
about 7 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

Status Indicator

Adding the status indicator in the cloud platform alerting users/ developers when the resource usage exceeds the limit or memory or storage space limit is nearing would help to design the application better.
about 7 years ago in Core Platform Services 2 Not under consideration