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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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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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Samples, SDKs and tutorials for services

Hi, I think it is crucial for Bluemix success that for each service there will be SDK + working sample + tutorial for the main programming languages (at least Java, Node.js and PHP). For example I needed to connect from Node.js to the Object Stor...
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Templates & Best Practices 5 Delivered

Improvement of the judge logic of Control ID 1.18(3000018) in IBM Cloud Security & Compliance Center

We'd like you to request improvement of the judge logic of Control ID 1.18(3000018). Our request is : Without editing the "Expected Values" by the end user , the SCC tool can detect the goal automatically . In other words "SCC should detect the re...
about 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security 1 Delivered

Command line option to activate logDna for Hyper Protect DBaaS for PostgreSQL

The only way to activate logDna for this service is using the UI. To automate the creation of an instance in our jenkins instance, we would like to have command line option to do that. This was already discussed in support case CS2092625 and the a...
over 4 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas 2 Delivered

Roadmap communications channel for Customers and Partners

As a platform owner (public, dedicated or local) I would like to know what services the applications on my platform is using, its status and when they may expire so I can give the applications time to move off of those service. Currently the only ...
over 8 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 4 Delivered

2FA Form Accept Enter Key

Please alter your two factor authentication form on https://cloud.ibm.com/login to accept the ENTER key as a submit for verification. Many other sites (including the form for this site) allow this action to streamline the login process.
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Security 1 Delivered

Add support for ed25519 ssh keys

At the moment IBM Cloud only supports RSA keys. Please add support for ed25519 which is much shorter and more secure.
almost 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Core Platform Services 0 Delivered

Cloud monitoring for PowerVS Infrastructure

Cloud monitoring for powerVS should be enabled by native monitoring services.
over 1 year ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Power 2 Delivered

accept PO box billing addresses in standard format

When inputing the billing address for my IBM Cloud payment method, if my billing address is a PO box, then the IBM Cloud website should accept that address. Currently, the IBM Cloud website explicitly states that it does not accept PO boxes. This ...
almost 2 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Billing 0 Delivered

Activity Log for all cloud activities

to improve our monitoring, eg security monitoring, we need to be able to track activities on IBM Cloud / Bluemix. who creates/deletes/update a service or app. this is really necessary (by law) to bring use cases with higher security needs to IBM C...
over 7 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / Administration 3 Delivered

Add Cloud Shell access with Trusted Profiles

Our client has decided to use Trusted Profiles to perform our logins in the portal of IBM Cloud as this way we don't need to have local users and this method is preferred over Dynamic rules. We have tried Trusted Profiles and many things work perf...
over 3 years ago in * IBM Cloud Ideas / CLI 0 Delivered