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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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Export of classic infrastructure block and file storage to .csv format for easy reporting

Export of classic infrastructure block and file storage to .csv format for easy reporting just like you can for devices. It makes it easy for reporting purposes to management. Now the process requires using the slcli and piecing together the disjo...
over 4 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

Should be able to View All Support Tickets Opened by Our Team

Currently there is no way to view support tickets opened by everyone on my team.
almost 8 years ago in Support 4 Not under consideration

Cloud Foundry system component log drain for Dedicated Bluemix

As a Bluemix Dedicated customer, we would like to have access to Cloud Foundry system component logs. Today we have access to Cloud Foundry application logs (via the firehose-to-syslog nozzle that is enabled), but we would really benefit from ...
almost 8 years ago in  0 Not under consideration

Add apache flink service

Flink is gaining popularity as a streaming analytics solution. IBM should offer it and not bet only on spark
about 8 years ago in  2 Not under consideration

Implement a Intellij Idea plugin for rapid deployment and integration of applications with IBM Bluemix

Hi, Even though Intellij Idea IDE is JetBrains proprietary, it would be nice to have an implementation of a plugin similar to http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/ibm-eclipse-tools-bluemix for this IDE too. The reasons for implementing such a pl...
about 8 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Alerts for space consumed in file systems

It would be very useful to be able to receive alerts when the use of a file storage exceeds a quota set by the user. Currently you can receive alarms for Snapshots capacity, it would be equally useful to receive these types of alerts for the gener...
almost 5 years ago in File Storage 0 Not under consideration

Low-Level Security Separation via hashcoding of all executables/scripts via cached/validated Hashcodes

Why do we still have malware, spyware, ransomware, or backdoors? Is it because our firewalls or Anti-virus solutions are only reactive and not proactive? Or is it because we don’t have walled/secured gardens or has security a too high price we wou...
over 1 year ago in Security 1 Not under consideration

Stop recommending a Java applet for KVM access

Java applets have been banned by most browsers for several years. Getting one running is enormously difficult. Yet the KVM for your VSIs (which runs bog-standard unencrypted VNC) still pushes the use of a Java applet and someone has to dig through...
about 5 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Not under consideration

Classic Infra Bandwidth graph need change timezone

If view the past SoftLayer Portal Bandwidth,The graph was displayed in the Timezone associated with SoftLayerID,It is now displayed as TIME (America / Chicago Time) only.I want to be able to display graphs in the time zone according to the local t...
about 5 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

Details behind error condition with LPARs in PowerVS

Example: Attempted to deploy 2 LPARs in PowerVS, one would consistently fail - going into error state, with no other details. Tried a number of times to redeploy the one LPAR with the same result. Atempted the next day and it worked. . I checked w...
over 3 years ago in Power 51 Not under consideration