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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.

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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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Snapshot and Volume sharing between accounts

As a SaaS Provider, I would like to provide my customers with the ability to create snapshots and save the data into another (SaaS) account. For customers, it enables an easy migration between accounts (think M&A or multiple account strategy) ...
11 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Block Storage 1 Delivered

Ticket support - expand "Text area" with new row

Expand the “Text Area” "Add Comment here" dedicated to comments when responding to tickets to support.Only 4 lines are currently displayed
11 months ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Support 0 Delivered

IBMCloud Schematics Codeless IaC

Our company is using Schematics service to create entire environments. We have run into several issues and challenges to using schematics service to stand up customer envs A simple answer we often received was, why don't we just use the terraform ...
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 2 Delivered

Allow all events to got a single Activity Tracker instance of our choosing

When we automate the creation of new sub-accounts, they currently will require an Activity Tracker in Frankfurt as well as Activity Trackers for other regions where resources may exist. This means we will always need two ATs. We would rather just ...
almost 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 8 Delivered

LogDNA : add RBAC like vanilla product

LogDNA Product permits to handle RBAC. It means I can allow a developer to access some tags : specific product, those he works on a VIP customer to access his logs only put in place a IAM process to allow temporary someone to access production log...
about 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 2 Delivered

DevOps Pipeline triggered by Pull Requests

Right now only commits can be used to trigger a pipeline. However, in many cases it is useful to trigger a pipeline based on a pull request. Using this you can run some tests on the code in the pull request (coding standard, basic build test, etc)...
about 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 3 Delivered

Raise notifications only when they are related to Resources/Serevices subscribed.

Raise notifications only when they are related to Resources/Serevices subscribed. Currently a lot of maintenance notifications could be related, this confuses users, also leads users to ignore notifications.
about 5 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 1 Delivered

Enable creation of other users than just admins in Messagehub

Problem: you want to expose a data stream to a 3rd party. Solution option: Use Kafka and give 3rd party API key to Kafka. Problem: now 3rd party has admin access to your kafka instance and can do whatever they like with your kafka instance.
over 7 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 1 Delivered

Allow setting of autoscaling policy in an automated fashion

At the moment, whilst it is possible to create an AutoScaling service via the command line tools, you cannot configure auto-scaling policies without having to log into the dashboard. This greatly restricts the options when trying to deploy an app...
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 1 Delivered

Manage and view individual SSL client certificates

Using mutual authentication in Bluemix requires the loading of client certs or trust stores. This is possible via the Bluemix console, but there is no way to list or view current client certs, and there is no way to upload an additional or revoke ...
almost 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 4 Delivered