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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".

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Overall System’s responses are always too slow.How do I get a quick operation?

1.**Please describe the problem you are experiencing in detail.** Overall System’s responses are always too slow.How do I get a quick operation? [a]Screen display of each action on IBM Cloud takes about 5 sec to 1 min. ex. ・Have to always wait to ...
about 2 years ago in Compute 0 Future consideration

Allow generation of VSI performance stats from CLI

Currently the performance report can only be generated from the UI. Being able to do it from the cli would allow it to be scripted and automated.
about 2 years ago in Virtual Servers 0 Future consideration

we are looking for the creation of snapshots of vpc server automatically using backup policy at exact time of cron entry.

Hello, We created the backup plan and backup policy in test environment and found that it is taking 1 hr interval time around the enter cron entry to take automatic snapshot. Can you please add the feature to take the automatic snapshot on exact c...
about 2 years ago in Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) 1 Not under consideration

IBM Cloud 2FA Prompt Less Frequently

The current implementation of 2FA prompting is inconsistent and regularly prompts too frequently (sometimes as little as < ten minutes). Requesting a prompt after an hour seems more appropriate.
over 2 years ago in Identity and Access Management 4 Not under consideration

Fraud Detection Using Advanced Machine Learning For E-Commerce And Financial Services

How many of you refrained from online shopping during the pandemic? No, every one of us preferred shopping for clothes, electronics, household items, groceries, and everything using mobile or the web. Digital fraud on the banking and financial ser...
over 2 years ago in Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Please remove the freeze of the work related to any McAfee products.

All work on McAfee products was suddenly frozen in the IBM Cloud. Due to the freeze, we are unable to do the work requested by our customers. There was no prior announcement of it. And it is undecided the ETA of the removal of the freeze. We ...
almost 3 years ago in Core Platform Services 1 Not under consideration

Missing useful information in IBM cloud portal

Hello, i am working as infrastructure DPE for Kyndryl cloud offerings (AMMSAP, SEI). As part of my monthly checks in IBM cloud portal, i need to find in the device view an additional column with asset status (ACTIVE, RECLAIM, ...).
almost 3 years ago in Administration 3 Future consideration

Add multiple tags at once using ibmcloud

So far is possible to add a tag to a single device by using the command: "ibmcloud resource tag-attach --tag-names TAG --resource-name NAME". However, is NOT possible to do it for multiple devices. It should be great if it could work for multiple ...
over 3 years ago in CLI 0 Future consideration

Add data usage monthly/daily reports or volumes in IBM Cloud Secure Gateways

i could see there is a limitation of the IBM Secure gateway product. By default secure gateways should give below details, so that all the support teams can proactively take the corrective action to avoid any service outage to the business. 1. how...
over 3 years ago in  1 Not under consideration

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