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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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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

Add secondary step before VSI can be deleted

Add requirement to type VSI name before it can be deleted in the same manner used for Kubernetes clusters.
over 3 years ago in Virtual Servers 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

CIS kubernetes security and compliance profile for the Cloud hosted Kubernetes services.

We have Cloud Hosted Kubernetes Services that we are hosting in IBM Cloud. We were hoping to utilize the IBM Cloud Security and Compliance centre's out of the box profiles to perform CIS benchmarking. However we are having difficulties getting any...
about 3 years ago in Security 0 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

Improve Active-Deploy deployment labling

When specifying a custom label for a deployment in active-deploy, the label cannot be found in the active-deploy-list. Using the deployment id is required to retreive the label with active-deploy-show. I suggest to generate a label by default, tha...
about 8 years ago in  1 Delivered

Watson IoT REST endpoint for checking device connectivity

It would be very nice instead of having 'iot-2/type/device_type/id/device_id/mon' topic to have REST API endpoint, so we would be able to check device connectivity status. For our case we are building listening on mentioned MQTT topic is not very ...
almost 7 years ago in  0 Delivered

As a Bluemix Dedicated customer, I want to be able to demonstrate HIPAA readiness of runtimes and services

I have an app that needs to be HIPAA certified, therefore I need the platform and services that my application uses to be HIPAA ready
about 8 years ago in Compliance / Core Platform Services 2 Delivered

could you please increase the trial period

No description provided
about 8 years ago in  2 Delivered

Do not ask for credit card number -

There is little value in having the credit card number of an account that has too little activity to charge. It almost deterred me and when I recommended Bluemix to a friend, this is one of the first things he mentioned. I had to reassure him that...
about 8 years ago in Core Platform Services 0 Delivered